How to make your own bittersweet Seville orange marmalade Make like Liz Hurley and get preserving while these oranges are at their juicy best When life gives you Seville oranges, why not make home-made marmalade? Credit: Getty It’s a bittersweet fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits, simmered with sugar and water. Beloved of Paddington Bear, marmalade – often made with Seville oranges, the fragrant, sweet Spanish fruits in season from the end of December to mid-February – is having a moment. Elizabeth Hurley, for one, has been keeping herself busy making batches and batches of the stuff: a veritable Lady Marmalade. “Lockdown has turned me into a demented housewife: 47 jars of marmalade are nestling in my larder and another sack of Seville oranges await me,” the star announced on Twitter this week, proudly displaying her jars of marmalade with hand-written labels. After all, when life gives you Seville oranges, why not make marmalade?