听播客学英语 187 果酱

 　　One of the strangest things about English people is what we eat for breakfast. Some people have a cooked breakfast, with bacon¹ and eggs and sausages. But most people are far too busy to cook things for breakfast. So they have a nice cup of tea or coffee, and toast, spread with marmalade. Marmalade is a type of jam, made out of oranges. Not ordinary oranges – they are too sweet – but very bitter² oranges which are grown near Seville in Spain. These oranges are picked in January, and nearly all of them are exported to Britain to make into marmalade.

　　You can of course buy marmalade in a supermarket. But shop-bought marmalade is poor stuff³. It contains too much sugar and not enough oranges. (My grandmother used to say that shop marmalade was made with potatoes!) No, if you want proper marmalade, you have to make it yourself at home.

　　The last two weeks in January is marmalade time. It is cold outside. Perhaps a few snowflakes are falling. But inside, the kitchen is warm and a delicious smell of oranges fills the house. So how do we make marmalade? The ingredients⁴ are simple – Seville oranges, a lemon, sugar and water. We chop⁵ the oranges and the lemon finely, including the peel. We add the water, and bring it to the boil. We boil the mixture until the oranges are cooked, then we add the sugar and continue boiling until the marmalade begins to set (ie until it starts to form a jelly). Then we put the marmalade into glass jars, and put a pretty label⁶ on each jar saying “marmalade”. You can store marmalade for a year or even longer until you need it. A jar of home-made⁷ marmalade makes a lovely present to give to friends or relatives.

　　Sarah Franklin has taken some wonderful photographs of making marmalade. On her flickr page she has included her recipe⁸, so – if you can find any Seville oranges – you can have a go yourself. For myself, I have another 10 kilos of marmalade to make before the next podcast.

　　There is a grammar and vocabulary note with this podcast. If you are listening on iTunes or an iPod, you will need to go to the podcast website to see it.

1 bacon   

n.咸肉，熏肉

参考例句：

• He is frying the bacon.他在煎咸肉。
• This bacon is too salty for me.这块熏咸猪肉我觉得太咸了。

2 bitter   

adj.激烈的，苦涩的，辛酸的，厉害的，悲痛的；n.辛酸，苦味，苦酒

参考例句：

• The bitter winter was coming.寒冬到了。
• The two countries fell out in a bitter wrangle over imports.这两个国家在有关进口问题的激烈争吵中闹翻了。

3 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

4 ingredients   

n.（混合物的）组成部分( ingredient的名词复数 )；（烹调的）原料；（构成）要素；因素

参考例句：

• All ingredients are readily available from your local store. 所有的原料都可以方便地从你当地的商店买到。
• We never use second quality ingredients to build building. 我们决不使用次等材料用于建筑。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 chop   

n.厚肉片，排骨，砍，交换，戳记，商标；vt.剁碎，砍，切，割断；vi.砍，突然转向

参考例句：

• He struck off the branch with a single chop of the ax.他一斧子就砍掉了那根树枝。
• She cut down the seedling with one chop.她一刀就把小苗砍倒了。

6 label   

n.卷标，标签，标记；称号，绰号；v.贴标签于，把…称为

参考例句：

• The label is on the inner side of the box.标签贴在盒子内侧。
• He has been given the label of "playboy".他被起了个“花花公子”的绰号。

7 home-made   

adj.自制的

参考例句：

• The instruments used are all home-made.所用的仪器都是国产的。
• The restaurant serves plain home-made meals.那个餐馆供应简单的家常菜。

8 recipe   

n.食谱，处方，秘诀

参考例句：

• What is your recipe for success?你取得成功有什麽窍门？
• This recipe is certainly interesting and different.这种烹饪法的确很有意思而且与众不同。