Fio Marmalade
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Prepare the overripe fruit by treating it in a hot soda bath.
Cook
Combine the fruit and sugar in a pot and cook together.
Mash the mixture with a potato masher or strain it through a colander.
Continue cooking until the mixture thickens.
Finish
Pack and process as you would for preserves.
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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What each ingredient does
- Overripe fruit
- Provides the main body, pectin, and natural flavour of the marmalade.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the marmalade and helps it thicken and keep as a preserve.
The step that matters
Continue cooking until the mixture thickens. Sugar and fruit pectin set only when enough water has evaporated and the mixture reaches a high enough concentration. Stopping too early leaves a runny marmalade, while cooking too long can scorch the sugar and darken the flavour.
“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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