Marmalade

Ooh, now you're getting fancy!

Maybe thin slices are added and stirred in just as it is put into each jar, that should work.

It would make a lovely present.
If you thinly sliced a small sweet orange. Microwaved to soften and carefully placed the slices around the inside of the jar, then gently poor the marmalade in - would that work? Or would the slices be too soggy and collapse? Needs experimentation.

oh dear this is a long way from the rather over-chunky um, rustic, batch I made on Saturday. Should maybe have discarded 30% of peel. Those Seville oranges don't have a lot of juicy stuff in the middle...

I remember my old mother used to use Mamade orange concentrate in tins 60+ years ago. Can you still get it?

Bought a Tefal jam maker.
Perfect jam, marmalade & chutney every time in fraction of time.

I do cut rind by hand though as I quite like doing it to be honest. With a good play on the radio I find it very relaxing.I tried doing it in various machines but it always went cloudy.
When we run out I buy Mamade to top up supplies & also have used Lakeland jam & lemon marmalade tins which work very well.

I'm adding preserved ginger this afternoon to latest batch as DH has hidden his whiskey ( I did use a malt last year by mistake- I was not popular!!)

I have just done batch #1 2014.
It took a bit of rescuing as I made a mistake and did not do the calculations for the amount of sugar properly too little and had to add some more late in the process.
That was a problem of needing to change the given quantities as I do not have a proper size preserving pan. I was probably getting complacent, the first batch I made last year was fine.

It now seems full of tiny bubbles but fortunately it tastes good. I tried the drips from the tray I bottled the jars on.

Anyone who can point me at a nice lime marmalade recipe? My green grocer was selling them for £1 a kilo this morning. I wasn't intending to make any Seville this year because I've still got lots from my last batch but that was too good to miss.

My OH's is nice, but I don't know where he got the recipe from. I had to make him reboil it because it was too runny though. He is doing a lot of cooking lately, they have charity bakeoffs at work, and he wanted to make a lime filling for his own version of jammy dodgers. It ran everywhere! He will have it storen on the computer somewhere.

Yes papaoscar I have made mamade in years when I have lived in towns without nearby markets, and I made some two years ago when i missed the seville orange window, it came from Tesco. The 'cook the oranges first' method tastes exactly the same.

Re the slices around the jar.
You could possibly soften the sweet oranges just very slightly and stick them on with a thick sugar syrup and leave that to set hard, before you put the hotter marmalade in. Go one someone! Experiment and send us a picture.

Gosh icylittle - limes that cheap? Are you in the UK?

At the markets here you can buy most fruit and veg for £1 a kilo at the moment. I would be there at the moment if it weren't for the freezing fog. I go there first, then plan my shopping list. Tesco grapes by comparison are unripe and ridiculously expensive.

janerowena that's my experience too. Yes, JessM, in Gloucestershire, just the usual green grocer, but he did also have them for 38p each. Nothing wrong with the kilo I bought though. I found a recipe that said to add a little bicarb to offset the acidity and help the set. I will see if it works tomorrow.