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Orange Marmalade

A preserved orange confection made by boiling orange pulp, rind, and sugar for an hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bitter orange and sugar work together. They rank in the top 41% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. The science ↓

Orange Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grate the outer rind of the oranges into a dish.

  2. Peel the inner rind and boil until tender.

  3. Slice the inner rind like citron.

  4. Separate the inner tissue and seeds from the pulp.

  5. Weigh the pulp and inner rind, then use an equal amount of loaf sugar.

  6. Wash the seeds and inner tissue, saving the water.

Make the marmalade

  1. Dissolve the sugar in the saved water.

  2. Add the pulp and sliced rind to the sugar mixture.

  3. Boil for one hour.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bitter orange + sugartop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Bitter oranges
Supply the rind, pulp and seeds that give the marmalade its bitter flavour and natural pectin for setting.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the marmalade, balances the bitterness and helps it set into a gel as it cooks.

The step that matters

Boil for one hour. The long boil concentrates the sugar and draws pectin out of the rind, pulp and seeds. Too short a boil can leave the marmalade runny, while overcooking can make it stiff and dark.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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