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Bulgarianlily
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I am sure you have lots of recipes here already but this is how I do it
Lee's lazy marmalade
To adapt this approach to marmalade, cut or pull off the peel from fruit and soak overnight. Cut some of the peel into thin or thick strips. You will get fed up doing this quite soon, so put the rest of the peel, the juice, and the de-pipped fruit into a food processor or mincer, and zap it into oblivion. For 1 kilo of fruit, use two kilos of sugar and two litres of water including the water you soaked the peel in! You can add a lemon or two if you fancy it, optional. Test your peel, if it is not soft and squishy you must cook the fruit before you add the sugar, sometimes for a long time. Then use the hot sugar prebaked in the oven, this saves you time stirring it, and gives a fresher flavour all round. If you want a really dark marmalade you can use a little treacle instead of some of the sugar. If you want to add some whiskey, don't. Wait until the marmalade is in the jars and float some onto the top, it will soak in and not just vanish, jam making is far too hot for alcohol to survive. Waste of good whisky of course, use the cheap stuff! You can tie the pips into a bit of muslin and cook it with the marmalade if you want, I don't bother. If you want, you can take out some of the clear jelly by careful use of the ladle and have a mix of jars of clearer jelly and thicker peely stuff, can be nice.
I have just made some, so some comments. I didn't measure my water, and must have had too much as it took a while to boil down. I forgot to say, when it gets close to setting, if you watch the drips coming off your spoon, they will change from dripping like water, to coming off more in a sheet, not completely but the drips try to join together more, and drop slower. A useful indication. This didn't make a real blob on the saucer, more runny than jam goes, but seems to be setting ok. Put a kettle on just before you pot it up, then you have hot water to wash out the pan, takes boiling water!
Re: scum, just before it is ready to set it produced some scum, but if you just wait a minute or two from taking it from the heat, you can stir it and the scum goes back in, it is only bubbles anyway. One good spoon of treacle turned it a nice dark colour. Matter of preference though. |
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