Old English Marmalade

• 2 lb. seville oranges
• 1 lemon
• 7 pints water

Wash the fruit, cut in half and squeeze out juice. Remove as much of the pith as possible and put in a muslin bag with the pips. Shred the peel. Put the peel into a preserving pan with the juice, water and muslin bag. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 2 hours or until the peel is tender and the liquid is reduced by half. Remove the bag of pips, squeezing gently to extract as much pe