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The histories of the ingredients, sauces and staples that fill the British store cupboard: tea, marmalade, Worcestershire sauce and more.
The word comes from Portugal, the oranges come from Seville and the most famous legend comes from Dundee. Here is how bitter orange marmalade became a fixture of the British breakfast table.
Two Worcester chemists, a disappointing batch left in a cellar and a famous legend about a nobleman back from Bengal: the story of one of Britain’s most distinctive sauces.
Tea arrived in Britain as an exotic luxury in the 1650s. Within two centuries it had become everyone’s drink, thanks to a royal fashion, rampant smuggling, a dramatic tax cut and plantations in India.
