If you have made a vegetarian soup that tasted thin, the answer was almost certainly a teaspoon of Marmite stirred in towards the end. Marmite is a concentrated lump of glutamates, the savoury compounds that give meat stock its meatiness.
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Marmite in sauces and dressings, properly
This is the one that surprises people. A teaspoon of Marmite, dissolved in a tablespoon of hot water, whisked together with two tablespoons of olive oil, one tablespoon of white wine vinegar, and a teaspoon of Dijon mustard. Salt, pepper.
Marmite sandwich combinations worth bothering with
Marmite on hot buttered toast. That is the platonic form. Everything else is a variation. If you do not eat this regularly you do not really live in the Marmite world. Two slices of decent sourdough, properly toasted, salty butter, a thin scrape of Marmite. That is breakfast.
Marmite in puddings, which is less unhinged than it sounds
Marmite in puddings sounds unhinged. It is not.
Marmite board games: every official board game licensed with the yeast extract jar
Marmite, over the years, has produced or licensed three actual board and card games for the home market. None of them is going to make it onto the BoardGameGeek top hundred, but all three exist, and all three are genuinely on-brand in a way most licensed games are not.
Ma'amite, the Diamond Jubilee Marmite
Marmite's marketing team are usually quite restrained. The name "Ma'amite" was the exception. Ma'am as in the way one addresses the Queen, mite as in Marmite.
Marmite does not, sadly, repel mosquitoes
It goes like this. The B vitamins in Marmite, particularly thiamine (B1), are excreted through the skin in small amounts. Mosquitoes find the smell of thiamine unattractive. Therefore, eating Marmite makes you a less appealing target.
Someone made Rodin's The Kiss out of 420 jars of Marmite
This is one of my favourite genuine Marmite stories.
A man called Saire Marmite, by his own request
Saire May, then thirty-eight, got out his deed poll forms and officially became Saire Marmite. His reasoning, as reported at the time, was that he wanted to demonstrate proper devotion to the jar.
Nigella's Marmite spaghetti, the right way
The Marmite spaghetti recipe originated, in its modern form, with Nigella Lawson in the early 2000s.
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