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DH’s adventures into marmalade

3 years ago

I thought this was a really funny, strange venture of my DH into making marmalade and wanted to tell you all about it.


We have a blood orange tree which get loaded with fruit each year. I make marmalade and give jars away and the rest lasts all year.

This year DH decided to make marmalade... no recipe. He cut the oranges into ‘chunks’ not fine slices as I do then boiled the mixture for a little while, maybe half hour. . He then asked about sugar and was horrified to learn how much is needed to make jam. No, he wasn’t going to add that much so he added a little. I’m not sure how much. I gave up advising him and said (nicely) ‘ it’s your show you do what you want to’.


After boiling up the sugar and fruit mixture for about half an hour. He declared ‘ it’s not going to set’ It wasn’t because he added so little sugar. Also he said that there were large leathery chunks of peel in it, which he then proceeded to take out using a sieve. I was apprehensive because of the high temperature.


This cooled peel and pith he then whizzed up with a hand whizzer until it was pulp. The liquid/syrup that was left he put into jars saying we’ll keep everything in the freezer and that we could use the syrup over ice cream. ( We hardly eat ice cream) .


Not finished with his cooking adventures he then said that the whizzed up pulp looked like the mixture I have when I make the Nigella Lawson mandarin cake. To a portion of the pulp stuff he added 2 eggs some almond flour and some plain flour. I said ‘can I put in some oil and baking powder’ which he allowed. Nothing was measured.


The cake turned out fine as a morning tea loaf cake. Who says baking is a science? LOL

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