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 Posted: Wed 3:21, 18 May 2011 Post subject: Marmalade Recipe |
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Three Fruit Marmalade Recipe
2 grapefruit
2 lemons
3 oranges
4 pint/2 litres water
3 ? lbs/1.6kg sugar (if you use sour Seville oranges you need extra sugar - 5lbs)
My marmalade production is still in the tentative stages, each batch turning out different, so I have to meditation up applicable adjectives apt describe the flavour,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to remember which is which. It might aid the research process if I remembered to write down what I did each I rather the haphazard ingredient of wonder when it comes to tasting the results, so perhaps I never ambition.Yesterday's batch is going to be phoned Fragrant Citrus Medley - the limes give it an extra imply of perfume, and reserve the zing alive,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!
Put the fruit and water into a large pan (preferably thick bottomed) and send to the boil, then simmer gently for 1-2 hours until the skin is tender.Add the sugar off the heat and stir till it dissolves. Don't let the marmalade boil afresh till it has dissolved. Boil briskly for about 30 minutes. Test for doneness by putting a drop on a cold panel. If it fashions a light peel that wrinkles when you shove your finger through it is done. Keep testing every five minutes if it were not for. The bubbles also change to be slower, larger rolling bubbles when it is prepared. Ladle into hot sterilised jars and stamp.
Wash the fruit, scrubbing the skins. Cut the fruit and rind into shreds, however thick you like your skin in the achieved marmalade. Remove any very pithy bits and pips. Usually one ought tie these in muslin and cook with the fruit, to get the most pectin available, then clear the whole pack pips and always . I haven't perturbed the last cuople of times and the marmalade still seems to set.
ing marmalade is pure self-indulgence as me. Nobody else in our house likes it, but I love the zesty tang of marmalade ashore hot buttery toast. Maybe the taste because it is weird to the English - peculiar savor buds we must must like marmite also with its salty bite. Anyway a few periods each winter I make a batch of marmalade, sell a few jars at the mall and keep the recess to last me till next annual. My parents also favor it when they visit.
I tried a fashionable fusion of fruits yesterday, joining a pair of limes and tangerines to the usual orange, grapefruit and lemon. True marmalade is made with Seville oranges, a acid diversity grown principally for the English marmalade market, but I haven't ever found any out here in South Africa, so have to mingle our sweet oranges with the sourer lemons and grapefruit to obtain the requisite zingy flavour. When I tried with fair oranges, I got a rather blunt, sweet orange jam, namely I christened Mellow Marmalade - fine fhardly everothing the troubled tastebuds but no quite stimulating.
Copyright 2006 Kit Heathcock
Here is the prescription I use for a elementary adviser, invested at my mama, who too makes her own afford.
If you would like to try my variation on the fruit mixture, substitute two or three limes for 1 of the grapefruit and 2 tangerines for one of the oranges. Any citrus fruits tin be made into marmalade. My next experiment is going to embody kumquats - we have a small tree here and none of the household really like that sweet/sour burst on the tastebuds when you bite into them, besides me and I can't dine a whole treeful myself! Happy marmalade-making!
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