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Orange Marmalade

A preserve made from oranges, sugar, and lemon juice, boiled until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Orange Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Use equal weight of oranges and sugar.

  2. Grate the yellow peel off half the oranges.

  3. Peel the yellow peel off the other half of the oranges and cut into small strips.

  4. Boil the cut peel in three different waters until tender.

  5. After removing all the tough white skin, cut the pulp into small pieces.

  6. Place the pulp in a colander and let the juice run through onto the sugar.

Cook and set

  1. Boil the sugar for about ten minutes, adding a little water if necessary, and skim well.

  2. Add the pulp and grated peel to the sugar.

  3. After boiling for six minutes, add the cut peel and boil for fifteen minutes.

  4. If the oranges are very sweet, add the juice of two or three lemons or grape fruit before cooking.

  5. Transfer the mixture into jelly glasses.

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. See the original page.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Oranges (in the method)
Peel and pulp supply the bitter flavour, aroma and pectin that help the marmalade set.
Sugar (in the method)
Sweetens and, with the fruit's pectin and acid, helps the mixture thicken and set.
Lemons
Add acidity that balances sweetness and supports pectin setting, if the oranges are very sweet.

The step that matters

Cooking the peel until tender before adding it. Peel strips must soften fully in water before they go into the sugar, because tough peel stays chewy and will not soften once the sugar syrup thickens.

“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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