The true story is more prosaic; in reality, the Keillers adapted an existing recipe for manufacture, by adding the characteristic rind suspended in the preserve.
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The ship had started its journey in Seville but the delay caused by the storm had made the oranges less fresh than they ought to have been.
Lewis Meeson was owned by Barker and Dobson plc, the UK confectionery manufacturer, whose brands included Victory V, Hacks cough sweets, Keiller butterscotch and the iconic Everton Mints.
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Keiller sent the remains to the curator of the museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom he felt would appreciate the find.
Jonathan A. Jones of the University of Oxford and Don Keiller of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge made FOIA requests for the data that Jones had sent to Webster.