and meant quince cheese. Mary Kettilby's 1714 cookery book, A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts (pages 78-79) discusses how to make marmalade. Modern marmalade has existed since the 1700s when the Scots added water to marmalade to make it less solid than before. The Scots were the people who made marmalade a breakfast item, and soon after the rest of Britain followed.

The word marmalade