January is marmalade making month, it is the favorite jam in the house and the one fruit I can't grow! Lucky that I can order organic oranges from the on-line supplier. I made Seville orange marmalade, which has very little juice and need to add lemon juice, and blood orange marmalade, with is juicy and has a good balance of sour and sweet orange flavor.
Seville orange marmalade finished cooking blood orange marmalade before cooking Seville orange marmalade before cooking
I keep the pips and boil them a few times to extract pectin, to add to the orange peel.
The orange peel, sweeten with honey is brought to boil, then rest to cool down, and repeat again 3 times until peel swell, soften and the marmalade is thick enough. Other then the pectin water and lemon juice I do not add any water, the thickness comes from having a lot of peel, pectin, and not from the use of a lot of sugar, store in freezer.
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