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Seville Orange Marmalade

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Posted by: Green Fingers Tuesday 5th February 2008, 5:28pm

Bar a few straggling leeks, an unexpected crop of self set rocket and a yet to emerge purple sprouting brocolli - there's little going on on MY PATCH

In the Bleak Mid-Winter

Winter wasteland would perhaps be too hard a phrase - but the patch does look a little worse for wear during mid-winter.

Every year around late January beginning of February I keep my eyes peeled for the arrival of seville oranges with the view to making a batch of home made marmalade.

Home Made Seville Orange Marmalade.

To make your own marmalade you'll need a pressure cooker, muslin bag, 6 proper Jam jars and the following ingredients:-

• 1 kg Seville Oranges
• 2 kg Sugar
• 1 litre water
• 2 lemons
  

Method

Squeeze out the juice from oranges and collect the pips in a muslin bag and tie .

Using a pressure cooker combine the water and the oranges, orange juice and bag of pips into the pan and pressure cook for 8 - 9 minutes at 10lb pressure. If you don't have a 10lb weight option you will have to use the 15lb for about 7 minutes.

This softens the fruit so you can chop it easily into thin slices

Reduce pressure quickly - stick the pan outdoors as the steam wreaks havoc on cold winter windows. When cool enough to handle take the bag of pips out and squeeze to get the maximum pectin out and the softened oranges and chop/slice them up as thinly as possible and put them back into the pan. (this is a bit messy)

Introduce the juice of the two lemons and the (oven warmed) sugar and bring to a steady rolling boil and continue until set - around 15 minutes

Marmalade is supposed to be a dead cert for setting however I found there's little wrong with adding half a sachet of Certo.

Let the pan stand for five minutes - this prevents the fruit all floating at the top then pour into hot jars and seal.

A real treat is that there always seems to be a little left over that doesn't justify part filling a new jar - pour into a bowl and leave in fridge.

While the jar lids are "popping" -- confirming they are vacuum sealed you can look forward to your first taste of home made marmalade.

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