The Cottage Smallholder

Made some lovely 'marmalade' recently - not the typical recipe though:

Smooth blended marmalade (makes about 5 lbs-ish)

1 grapefruit; 1 large sweet orange; 2 lemons - approx 750 gms / 1.5 lbs in weight

3 pints water; 1.5kg / 3 lbs sugar.

Wash thoroughly and chop fruits roughly;

Preserve the pips, placing in some muslin;

Put all in a pan, bring to boil and simmer for 2 hours;

Remove pips, and liquidise everything else till smooth.

Bring back to boil, add sugar, stirring till dissolved.

Boil till setting point is reached.

Pot and cover.

Very nice it is too.

This recipe was taken from a pull-out from Woman magazine - dd June 24 1972  !!

Terrier said:

Liquidise? interesting

Yes, Jan, what I did, separately, was to simmer a large handful of peel cut into matchstick-size, and, after liquidising the rest, I added the matchstick ones to make it resemble 'marmalade' !

That's the first time I tried that recipe, and if it is for the family, it's fine. However, if you're selling it, some may not like the idea ..... though it came out a pretty marmalade colour, and the taste is lovely. In fact, when I bought some in France, I believe it was made the same way as this. It's worth trying - honestly!

mauramac said:

 

Also....and thanks yet again to Hattie, another really interesting marmalade recipe. Must make a note of that one.

Hattie?