Jaffa Citrus Press · Preserves
Marmalades, cordials, candied peel, and grove boxes. Batches are finite. If a plot is empty, the jar is not imagined into being. Collect from Yefet Street or write for a seasonal list.
MarmaladeCordialPeelGrove boxes
The house set. Oval Jaffa oranges, thick peel cut into long shreds, gelled to a bright amber. Breakfast-firm, still spoonable. The taste the crates were built for.
370 g jar
Thin-skinned fruit, a quieter bitterness, and a brief infusion of washed citrus leaf. Winter colour without the Shamouti’s chew. A shorter set, meant for toast and pastry kitchens.
370 g jar
Cool-night pigment, a wine-dark gel, peel cut as small tiles rather than ribbons. Released when the colour is honest — we do not tint. Usually a few hundred jars.
280 g jar
Late juice through the iron press, peel oil captured, light syrup. Dilute with cold water or soda. This is a pantry bottle, not a cocktail list. Returnable glass in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
500 ml bottle
The perfume of the season. Juice is modest; the peel does the talking. A teaspoon in hot water is the atelier’s afternoon habit. Bottled in small runs after the bergamot comes in.
350 ml bottle
Pith-on orange strips simmered until they take the light, drained, and rolled in raw sugar. For baking, for a pocket on a walk, for the old port gift rebuilt.
180 g bag
Wide, almost architectural pieces of pomelo albedo, candied slowly so they stay elastic. Bitter in the best way. Packs well in grove boxes as the “structure” beside softer marmalade.
150 g bag
A small stencilled crate: Bitter Shamouti, one rotating marmalade, and a peel bag. Tissue undyed. The box is the old export language, resized for a kitchen shelf.
Crate of 3
Two marmalades, one cordial, candied peel, and the week’s plot card. Built for households that cook, not for hotel turndown. Collected from the atelier or packed for specialist grocers.
Crate of 5
Citron peel after the harvest festival tables are cleared, cooked into a fragrant, almost floral conserve. A short, respectful run — fruit with a public life before it meets sugar. Not a novelty; a calendar.
220 g jar
How to order. There is no cart on this page because batches move faster than a catalogue. Write to hello@jaffapress.pro or visit 18 Yefet Street during hours with a list. We hold grove boxes for collection with a name on the crate. Wholesale for grocers is the same address, same copper pans, same dated lids.
Harvest notes
A wet week on Plot 03 means more water in the fruit and a longer reduce before the gel will stand. A dry spell thickens Shamouti peel and lifts the bitterness — the set collectors call the old crate. We weigh sugar to that delivery, write the plot and the weather in three words on the card, and stamp the lid with the date the copper came off the heat.
If you collect in January you are buying high-winter Shamouti. If you write in May you are offered Valencia cordial and pith ribbons, not a fictional orange we kept in a freezer. When a plot is empty, that line disappears from the list until the trees say otherwise.
Cupboard, not theatre
Unopened marmalade sits in a cool cupboard away from the oven and the sun stripe on a windowsill. The dated lid is a record, not a dare: eat the older jar first. After you break the seal, refrigerate, use a clean spoon, and finish within a few weeks — citrus set is food, not an ornament. Soft-set batches are labelled as such; they were never meant to stand like a commercial brick.
Cordial stays upright, capped, and cool. Dilute when you pour; do not store a half-watered jug. In Tel Aviv-Yafo we take empty glass back. Candied peel belongs in its waxed bag, pinched shut, away from steam. If the sugar crust weeps in August humidity, spread the pieces on paper for an hour — do not bake them “to refresh.”
Two kinds of order
Private collectors reserve a grove box under a name, taste a spoon at the counter, and walk out with wood and glass. There is no subscription trap and no app. You write, you collect, or you send a list for the next Shamouti window.
Grocers order by case from the same copper line: same dated lids, same plot cards, invoiced to a shop address. We do not write restaurant menus, plate breakfasts, or supply a “Jaffa experience” for a hotel buffet. If your shop can speak honestly about peel and origin, ask for the wholesale desk — it is in the same room as the press.
What you can actually buy
This table is a habit of the trees, written so you do not email in July asking for bergamot. Festival conserve appears only when peel is released after the tables are cleared. Blood orange tessera waits on cool nights; if the pigment is shy, we skip the run rather than tint a jar.
| Window | Usually on the shelf | Usually gone |
|---|---|---|
| Early winter | Clementine & leaf, first Shamouti | Valencia cordial from the previous spring |
| High winter | Bitter Shamouti, peel rafts, three-jar crates | Pomelo ribbons if pith stocks run out |
| Late winter | Bergamot cordial, blood tessera when nights stay cold | Thin-skinned clementine once the trees finish |
| Spring | Valencia press cordial, pomelo pith ribbons | Shamouti set except what we held as dated stock |
| Festival weeks | Etrog peel conserve in a short run | Everything else pauses while those pans work |
Tasting counter
The counter is a working shelf, not a café rail. We offer one clean spoon of the marmalade currently on the card, sometimes a drop of cordial in water. There is no flight, no pairing board, and no seat to occupy while you decide. If a copper pan is coming off the heat, stand where we show you; the line is hot metal, not a viewing gallery.
Children may taste if a parent handles the glass. Do not dip a used spoon, do not photograph the plot log as if it were a menu, and do not ask us to plate toast. Last spoon is thirty minutes before we lock the door. If you need lunch, walk on — Jaffa has kitchens.
Packing
Grove boxes go into stencilled softwood with undyed tissue between jars so they do not ring. Each crate carries a plot card and the collector’s name in pencil. Cordial bottles are wrapped separately; returnable glass is marked and can come back to 18 Yefet Street on a later visit. We do not use coloured shred, ribbons, or a gift card that pretends this is confectionery.
If you are collecting on foot, say so — we will pack for a bag, not for a boot. Wholesale cases use the same tissue and the same dated lids, stacked for a van. Broken glass is replaced from the same batch when we still have it; we do not swap in a different plot to “make the number.”