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Another Way to Make Orange Marmalade

A preserved citrus spread made by boiling oranges with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Orange Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the oranges

  1. Wash the oranges.

  2. Remove any defective parts.

  3. Place the oranges in a saucepan with plenty of cold water and cover it tightly.

  4. Boil until a straw or pin can easily pierce them.

  5. Remove the oranges.

  6. Cut the oranges into quarters.

  7. Pick out the seeds.

  8. Slice the orange pieces thinly, skin and all.

Make the syrup

  1. Break the sugar into small pieces.

  2. For each pound of sugar, use ¼ cup of water.

  3. Stir the sugar and water until dissolved.

  4. Boil the mixture for a few minutes.

  5. Remove from heat.

  6. Add ¼ cup of cold water to eliminate impurities.

  7. Skim off any foam.

  8. Return to heat.

  9. Remove any additional foam.

Cook the marmalade

  1. Add the sliced oranges.

  2. Boil for 15 minutes.

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. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide the fruit, bitter peel and pectin that help the marmalade set.
Fine loaf sugar
Sweetens and preserves the marmalade and helps it set into a gel.

The step that matters

Cook the oranges until tender before adding the sugar. Sugar toughens the peel, so cooking the whole oranges until a pin pierces them first makes the peel tender. Pectin released during cooking helps the marmalade set.

“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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