Why is it called?!
Answers: why is it called marmalade and not orange jam
that's what the French named it and you know how weird them froggy nationalistic verging on racist and not to mention stubborn [when a war breaks out first to surrender] rude,/ lovely race of snail and frogs legs eating bunch of t-ats they are I think that's why marmalade has got a different name to good old English jam not that i dislike the French or anything honest they couldn't even call it orange preserve and their red wine is crap next to the Spanish wine a good rioja beats any french red Ive ever tasted and Spanish olives taste better too in fact the only thing i do like that's french is caossons and chicken Chassier they do have a lovely country just a shame about their people really and their love for really bad jazz makes me want to do poo poo in their soup any one share my love for viva la french oh yes marmalade is cooked very slightly differently to jam its cooked more closely to a preserve
dude i ******* hate marmalade it tastes like ****
its something to do with the fact that marmalde can be made with any citrus fruit, so you would have to have orange jam, lime jam, lemon jam etc, but not sure where the word "marmalade" comes from
Why does this question keep coming up!
Marmalade and Jam are cooked differently.
Therefore you cannot call a marmalade a jam or visa versa.
possibly came from the Latin melimelum meaning honey apple and then to Marmelada (Portuguese) which is a compound of the word marmelo (quince).
The recipe usually includes sliced or chopped fruit peel including citrus, which is simmered in fruit juice and water until soft; indeed marmalade is sometimes described as jam with fruit peel
no idea,i don't really care what it is called the only thing that matters is that it should taste good
Marmalade has rind and fruit while jam has just fruit.
If you believe everything you read on Wikipedia, then try this:
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "marmalade" appeared in English in 1480, borrowed from French marmelade which, in turn, came from the Portuguese marmelada. Originally, according to the root of the word, which is marmelo or quince, a preserve made from quinces was intended. Marmelada is a compound of the word marmelo (quince), that derives from Latin melimelum, “honey apple” (Klein’s Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language).[1] According to José Pedro Machado’s “Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa” (Etymological Dictionary of the Portuguese Language), the oldest known document where this word is to be found is Gil Vicente’s play Comédia de Rubena, written in 1521:
Temos tanta marmelada
Que minha m?y maa de dar[2]
The Romans learned from the Greeks that quinces slowly cooked with honey would "set" when cool (though they did not know about fruit pectin). Greek melimēlon or "honey fruit"—for most quinces are too astringent to be used without honey, and in Greek "mēlon" or "apple" stands for all globular fruits—was transformed into "marmelo." The Roman cookbook attributed to Apicius gives a recipe for preserving whole quinces with their stems and leaves attached in a bath of honey diluted with defrutum: Roman marmalade.
The extension of "marmalade" in the English language to refer to citrus fruits was made in the 17th century, when citrus first began to be plentiful enough in England for the usage to become common. In some languages of continental Europe a word sharing a root with "marmalade" refers to all gelled fruit conserves, and those derived from citrus fruits merit no special word of their own.
I know this is annoying, but I don't know the answer. I live outside the UK and I do know that our local supermarket sells something called 'Bitter orange jam' for the same price as regular jam. (It might have more zest in it). Most of my UK friends here pay an enormous sum for 'marmalade' at the nearest, posh food store.
Now, my favourite marmalade is 'Roses Lime' and that I do buy from the posh store - about once every three years!
OK, it's called nostalgia.