Bitter Orange Marmalade with Fresh Bay

Clear the decks and set aside a full morning for this project preserve: It’s Messy and time-consuming (bitter oranges have seeds ... so many seeds). Aside from it being a project, I feel I should alert you to one other important downside of making bitter orange marmalade, especially this one, with its refreshing eucalyptus overtones from the bay leaves: It will be disturbingly hard to go back to regular old navel orange marmalade after tasting it—which means that, like me, you’ll probably f