Supermarkets and sweets group Barker & Dobson has sold its James Keiller marmalades and jams to Ranks Hovis McDougall in a deal worth just over 4 million (pounds). Scrub the oranges to remove the wax. Then place them in a large saucepan with 2 litres of water for 2 hours, or until the skin is soft and can be pierced with a fork.

Then remove the pips and add the chopped fruit and preserved juice, boiling this to reduce by a third. James Keiller & Son Dundee Marmalade, Orange". wegmans.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Here’s another advertisement, this one from 1886, that features both Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce and Dundee Marmalade among other products touted by John Duncan’s Sons. Michael Bond (2008). Paddington: My Book of Marmalade. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. ISBN 978-0-00-726946-4. The Board of the company is James Boyd (Chairman), William Boyd (Joint MD), Robert Just Boyd (Joint MD), Alexander Monfries and Edward W. Meredith [3]

The reasoning behind this locale was explained in Amanda Bennett’s book, “Secret Guernsey,” published in 2015.

In 1840 he partnered with his son, David Duncan, and established John Duncan & Son. Their co-partnership announcement, published in the February 27, 1840 edition of New York’s “Evening Post,” mentioned that:Yesterday Mr. Fletcher said his group had decided to sell the preserves interests because “there was not sufficient critical mass in the business.” Under RHM’s ownership they would be part of a much larger jams operation, he said. Two Scottish takeaways feature in Deliveroo top 100 worldwide roundup - including acclaimed Thai restaurant The recipe from Dunrobin gives instructions to cut the oranges into small squares, producing the ‘chipped’ style of marmalade popularised by Keiller’s Dundee marmalade. James Keiller founded the first marmalade factory in 1797, so the story of Keiller’s Dundee marmalade is difficult to avoid. The myth goes that marmalade was invented in Dundee, by the wife of a grocer named James Keiller, after he bought a load of discounted, and unsellable, oranges from a storm blasted cargo ship. For the first time marmalade was produced on an industrial scale, thereby popularising the ‘chipped’ style are so familiar with today, and establishing the idea of Dundee marmalade. Baba’s Doner Pie is the latest addition to the menu at Clark’s, a family bakery that opened in 1950 turned 24-hour takeaway. “Dundee is a growing university city — we had to come up with pies for a younger crowd,” says Jonathon Clark, a third-generation baker who took over the family business from his father in 2000. Since then, Jonathon and his team of bakers have created dozens of hangover-inspired pie creations, including the NYC Pie (pastrami, onions, peppers, gherkins, mustard, white sauce and mozzarella and chili cheese), and the Breakfast Pie (bacon, beans, Lorne sausage, haggis and a tattie scone). According to Jonathon, Dundee’s first 24-hour bakery now sells around 5,000 pies a week.