Thursday, February 19/2015

Billed in advance as the coldest day of the winter, it probably is - and a fair contender for the coldest day we've ever experienced in Cyprus. There are a couple of reports of actual snow in Larnaca, lasting only minutes but almost unheard of here, though common in the mountains. Pretty windy too.

A good day for making marmalade with some of the remaining bergamot oranges. Without a blender it's amazingly labour intensive but a sharp knife and a lot of fine cutting do it and the recipe is more than satisfactory. Seeds have to be put in a cloth bag and retrieved at the end, as they're essential to the setting. Apart from that all the fruit and peel are eaten, as well as quite a lot of sugar and, at the very end, a touch of whiskey.