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Orange Marmalade

A preserve made from orange pulp and rind, cooked with sugar until thick.

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 the rind

  1. Cut oranges into quarters and peel off the rind.

  2. Slice the rind into thin chips.

  3. Boil the rind chips in water for about 1 hour until tender.

  4. Strain the boiled rind chips and set aside.

Make the marmalade

  1. For every pint of orange pulp, add an equal quantity of granulated sugar.

  2. Return the mixture to the kettle and cook until thick, stirring frequently to prevent burning.

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.

Explore the science

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

Oranges
Rind and pulp supply pectin for setting and bitter flavor from the peel.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the marmalade and, as it concentrates, helps it thicken and keep.

The step that matters

Cook until thick, stirring frequently. As water evaporates, the sugar and pectin concentrate and the mixture can scorch on the base of the kettle. Frequent stirring spreads the heat and prevents burnt flavor. The marmalade thickens as it cools because pectin and sugar form a gel.

“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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