Making marmalade
Mar. 23rd, 2012 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceBecause people asked, this is my process which is mine, because I made it up. It's hardly a recipe, it's so simple.
Buy a weight of oranges. Buy the same weight of sugar. Have a tap. These are your ingredients.
Put the oranges in a big pot, and add water. The moment they start to float, stop (or stop sooner; they don't all need to be covered, and the more water you add, the longer the cooking, the darker the marmalade).
Put a lid on the pan and bring it to the boil. Reduce the heat, boil an hour, turn it off, leave it overnight.
Next day, put a colander in a big bowl and drape it with muslin.
Extract your oranges from the water. Add all the sugar to the water, and put on a low heat. Stir occasionally. Meanwhile halve all your oranges and scoop out the insides, pips and flesh together; put all of that in the muslin-lined colander.
Chop the orange rinds and add to the pot. Tie up the muslin into a bag and add that. A lot of juice will have drained through the colander into the bowl; add that.
Check that all the sugar has dissolved and bring the pot to a serious boil.
Boil to the setting-point (this may take an hour or more, depending how much water you started with; don't worry, it won't burn and it will get there in the end), and pot up in sterilised jars.
Enjoy.
Buy a weight of oranges. Buy the same weight of sugar. Have a tap. These are your ingredients.
Put the oranges in a big pot, and add water. The moment they start to float, stop (or stop sooner; they don't all need to be covered, and the more water you add, the longer the cooking, the darker the marmalade).
Put a lid on the pan and bring it to the boil. Reduce the heat, boil an hour, turn it off, leave it overnight.
Next day, put a colander in a big bowl and drape it with muslin.
Extract your oranges from the water. Add all the sugar to the water, and put on a low heat. Stir occasionally. Meanwhile halve all your oranges and scoop out the insides, pips and flesh together; put all of that in the muslin-lined colander.
Chop the orange rinds and add to the pot. Tie up the muslin into a bag and add that. A lot of juice will have drained through the colander into the bowl; add that.
Check that all the sugar has dissolved and bring the pot to a serious boil.
Boil to the setting-point (this may take an hour or more, depending how much water you started with; don't worry, it won't burn and it will get there in the end), and pot up in sterilised jars.
Enjoy.