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Orange Marmalade

A preserve made from bitter oranges, sugar, and orange pulp, boiled and jarred.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 the peel

  1. Pare off the yellow peel of the oranges and cut it into thin shreds, then into 1‑inch pieces.

  2. Boil the shreds for 1 hour to remove the bitter taste, then drain and discard the water.

Make the marmalade

  1. Cut the oranges, saving all juice and pulp, but discard the seeds and white skins.

  2. In a preserving kettle, combine the pulp, juice, shreds, and sugar, and stir until it boils.

  3. Let it boil for 30 minutes, skim off any foam, then pour into jars.

  4. Once cooled, cover with paper and store.

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

Sugar
Sweetens and, with the fruit pectin and acid, helps the marmalade thicken and set as it boils.
Bitter oranges
Provide the peel, pulp and juice that give marmalade its flavour, aroma and natural pectin.

The step that matters

Boiling the peel before cooking. Boiling the shreds for a full hour softens the peel and draws out its bitter compounds. Skipping or shortening this step leaves the finished marmalade unpleasantly bitter.

“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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