This recipe makes a couple of.3 kg (5 lb) so make certain you possess an appropriate quantity of jam jars.
700 g (1.5 lb) lemon or lime
900 ml (30 fl.oz) water
1.4 kg (3 lb) sugar
1 teaspoon citric acidity (optional)
I love to use mostly grapefruit and a minimum of 1 lemon however a lot depends upon just how much you favour the bitter quality that's a lot an attribute of marmalade. Seville oranges (or any bitter kind of orange) will also be excellent.
Wash fruit, decline in half and squeeze the juice. Also scoop the white-colored center in the grapefruit. Put this, using the pips all the fruit, inside a muslin bag. Cut all of the skins into thin slices or, if you work with the food processor, cut them into quarters before inserting within the machine’s funnel. Should you don’t possess a muslin bag use a little square of mutton cloth (also known as cheese cloth) involved in a little bit of string.
Place the sliced fruit, the muslin bag of pips, the juice and water right into a pressure oven. Mention to ruthless and prepare for 25 minutes. Should you don’t possess a pressure oven it could take around an hour and you'll certainly require more water, however i’ve no clue just how much. Reduce pressure (you’re supposed to get this done gradually however i’m afraid I place the oven within running tap until it can make a noise just like a huge sigh) permit the fruit to awesome just a little, then make certain the peel is actually soft by squeezing it between your thumb and index finger. Take away the muslin bag and squeeze the juice from this into the oven. Discard the bag’s contents and wash the bag for future use. Add some sugar towards the pressure oven and stir until it's dissolved. Return the uncovered oven towards the heat and boil quickly, stirring constantly before the setting point is arrived at. I discovered with fruit from buddies this required 15-twenty minutes for every of three plenty of marmalade, whereas with fruit on special in the supermarket it required over half-an-hour. The citric acidity could be added just about any time during cooking.
To check the mix, pour just a little onto within pressure oven lid (stainless is cooler than the usual china saucer). It's ready when, on cooling, it forms an epidermis and wrinkles like folded leather. Permit the oven to awesome for around ten minutes before stirring the marmalade and potting it. I personally use jam jars with individuals covers that pop within the center because the jam cools.
Your jars and covers could be sterilised when you are awaiting the mix to awesome. After I chose to make this jam I still had my microwave and so i half filled the jars with warm water and insert them in the microwave on high before the water bubbled. Allow it to boil not less than thirty seconds before taking out the jars. I don’t bother to dry them inside. Just a little water doesn’ appear to modify the marmalade and drying them would undo the sterilisation. To sterilise the covers insert them in a heat-proof bowl and pour boiling water them over.
Here’s an image of a few of the last large amount of marmalade I made, from grapefruit on special in the supermarket.