THREE FRUIT MARMALADE

Make your very own Three Fruit Marmalade with this free step-by-step recipe! Marmalade is a fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits, boiled with sugar and water… Lovely on toast or fresh bread!

Ingredients


4 lemons (500g)
2 grapefruits (500g)
3 sweet oranges (500g)
1 muslin cloth
3 litres water
8 cups sugar


Method

• Wash the fruit thoroughly. 
• Using a potato peeler, thinly peel the outer rind of your citrus fruits and place in the bowl of a food processor with a stainless-steel blade.
• Work over the processor to catch juices, peel white pith from fruit and place pith on top of a muslin cloth and set aside.
• Halve the fruits and remove pips.
• Place the pips with pith in muslin cloth. Tie the pith and pips inside the muslin cloth.
• Roughly chop the fruit’s flesh and rind in the food processor.
• Place the chopped fruit, water and muslin ‘bag’ into a large, shallow preserving pan or a large, wide saucepan with a solid base.
• Simmer for about 1 hour or until peel is tender.
• Remove muslin ‘bag’ and place between 2 plates and squeeze juices into marmalade. Discard the bag.
• Add the sugar and stir until dissolved.
• Bring mixture to the boil and boil rapidly for about 1 hour without a lid, stirring regularly until setting point is reached (see below).
• Remove from heat and allow to stand for a few minutes.
• Ladle into sterilised jars and seal.
• Turn bottles upside down to sterilise lids.

How to test setting point:

• Place a side plate in the freezer.
• Spoon a little of the syrup onto the chilled side plate and leave to cool.
• If the syrup forms a skin that wrinkles when pushed with your finger the marmalade is ready.
• Boil the syrup again if the marmalade isn’t set yet and test again.

Variation: 


This recipe makes a slightly bitter marmalade, if you prefer something a little sweeter then replace one of the grapefruits with two oranges.


Makes about 7 x 400ml jars