Marmalade -Andrea style
I admit did not see them as oranges, what I saw were jars full of marmalade, decorated with toppers designed by my children with elastic bands. £3 later and they were mine.
I have changed the children into their dressing up clothes, buzz & sleeping beauty are dancing around the living room giving me time to get friendly with finely dicing some orange peel in to the juice and water.
I suppose lots of people would not be enjoying the chopping and slicing bit, but I find it soothing and thereputic, I could spend more time slicing veg for the sunday roast than I actually spend on the roasting joint itself - I digress, sorry
SO back to the Marmalade
5 Large Seville Oranges
2 900g bags of sugar
4 pints of water
(This makes between 5 and 6 jars which I wash in hot soapy water and then put in the oven at 140 0c to dry for about 25 minutes)
Half all the oranges and squeeze the juice into a very large heavy pan
Keep all pips and membrain and wrap in muslin, tie and add to the pan (dont forget to recove this later)
slice up all the orange peel (i like mine quite thick, but its your marmalade so do as you please) and add this to the pan
Now the boring bit - wait 2 hours whilst it is simmering away & then test by scraping a peice of peel with a spoon to see if it has softened. & it will have reduced by about half.
Once happy with this, then add the sugar & wait for it to come to the desired consistency (spreadability factor) and put a wooden spoon in , hold it in the air for a minute and the marmalade should drop in one thick drop when it is ready.
With a funnel (or if like me you dont have one use a metal ladle) and carefully fill the jars up to the neck & put the lids on straight away.
Do your thing with the labels, and enjoy with hot toast every morning
***One peice of advice, hide one jar, somewhere where you know no one will find it so that it does not disapear like lemon curd gate!
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