Cheesecake with Seville orange marmalade

Tarta de queso con mermelada de naranja amarga

The arabs cultivated the bitter orange as an ornamental tree. And as Islam spread, it reached Spain, where it became famous as the Seville orange. Once a year, oranges of this variety are collected from trees in Seville and shipped to Britain to be used in marmalade. However, the fruit is rarely consumed locally in Andalusia. Seville oranges are only available for roughly a period of six weeks from early to mid January and they are used mainly for making marmalade because they have a high pectin content and also because they are very sour and bitter as a fruit.
By Tapas Together Edinburgh