Finger Lime Marmalade 220g
Memorable Quotes: "Oh - Divine!" Heard at every event and market done since its inception, typically uttered by a discerning Foodie.
Tasting Notes: Just cracking open the jar of Finger Lime Marmalade starts your mouth watering as the aroma fills the kitchen and pre-empts your taste buds... Wonderfully strong flavoured, bitter and aromatic making a complete Marmalade experience unparalleled by anything before it. We have had professional tasters spend over 10 minutes just savoring the aroma, depth of flavour and characteristics of this product.
Natural History: The Finger Lime Citrus australasica is a thorny sprawling rainforest understorey tree that grows in sub tropical Rainforest in northern NSW and south east Queensland. Its fruit are truly delightful being the size and shape of fingers but containing flesh in individual vesicles like caviar. A strong and very aromatic lime flavour somewhere between a Tahitian and Kaffir lime, very distinctive and exciting to work with, the fresh fruit make a wonderful addition to a Gin & Tonic with the individual vesicles bobbing up and down in the glass and providing little lime 'bursts' as you drink and bite the little balls.
Our Finger Limes are grown in the northern rivers region of NSW between Lismore & Byron Bay on small organic style plantations. The Finger Lime is only an emerging crop at this stage and there are many problems with supply of the fruit.
Left: Close up of black skinned green flesh fruit. There seems to be an endless variety of skin and flesh colours from dark purple, to crimson to white and yellow! The flesh inside is in tiny balls like caviar.
Cultural History: Undoubtedly the Aboriginal tribes of our subtropical Rainforests would have enjoyed the occasional Finger Lime fruit. Finger limes have only been planted in any quantity since 1997 and as such many growers are now entering the market and putting in grafted stock selected from superior wild trees. Nothing makes a chef's eyes lite up more than introducing them to the wonderful flesh of the Finger Lime, endlessly versatile as a garnish, flavour enhancer and feature of many dish'.
Ingredients: Finger Limes Citrus australasica(24%), Fresh Lime juice, Cane Sugar, Fresh Lemon Juice, Lemon Myrtle, Citrus Pectin.
Using Finger Lime Marmalade: Perfect compliment for a Sourdough or Rye toast in the morning, it will overpower wussy white bread so go for stronger bodied breads. Also used as a spicy chutney, baste on duck in the last 15 minutes of cooking or as a starter in stir fry. Use as the flavour in a spicy sauce or syrup & can be used a substitute for tamarind paste in Asian style cooking.
Made By: Kurrajong Native Foods, a signature creation of Lee Etherington, "I just love working with the Finger Lime... endlessly versatile and such wonderful flavour and aroma. I am very proud of my Finger Lime Marmalade, people have tried to copy it and have created disasters!" LOL.
Right: A photo showing a 4 year old grafted finger lime tree bearing black skinned fruit. These fruit are perfect for marmalade as they have very little seed content.
Storage: lasts for up to 2 years unopened as per best before date on bottle, no need to refrigerate once open. This product actually improves with ageing. Each year we release 18month old finger lime marmalade at our Christmas markets. The flavour is has enormous depth and complexity and is a very dark colour.
Other Finger Lime Creations: Finger Lime Marmalade in 50g, 120g, 230 and 1100g jars. Come and see us at the Sydney markets to try our delectable Finger Lime Curd!
