Mmm, Marmalade! Quick & Easy To Make
- themarigoldgc
- Oct 14, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 26, 2024
Don't you just love the zesty, zingy, yummy taste of marmalade? Me, too! I always thought it was super fussy and hard to make. If only I had known how very simple it is really is, I could have been making my own jammy goodness decades ago!
I'm not even kidding! This recipe took me about 30 minutes from start to finish! Is so easy that you can actually make it fresh for breakfast while the coffee is brewing. Whip up a jar or two to give as a hostess or birthday gift, and hey, Christmas is coming!
There is a bit of a back story to how I ended up making marmalade, completely out of the blue, on an October morning.
When we first started talking about moving, about leaving the acreage and started anew in house number seven, I told hubby that I wasn't sure that I had another move in me. I had no ideas left, no dreams or thoughts on how to renovate yet another house and yard after the past 2 years of turmoil. Of course, life does not come with those kinds of choices, so I was on the hunt to bring back some of my creativity and also my joy of planning and doing.
While poking about at the bookstore in early summer, drinking a yummy oat-milk latte, I came upon a thick magazine called Daphne's Diary. This magazine is just WOW, is chock-o-block full of creative stuff to get your juices flowing. Crafts, diy's, recipes, stories, journal ideas, pretty papers to use, all sorts of punch-outs. So many ideas in one place! I bought the magazine, went home and immediately put in an order for a year's subscription... now this lovely thing shows up in my mailbox once a month to fill my head with ideas.
The latest issue had a lovely, super simple recipe for marmalade in it. I had to give it a try. I always thought making marmalade was so much work, but here was a recipe with just two ingredients. I tweaked it a bit as I thought one had to remove all the white pith, and did so, even though the instructions did not call for it. Turns out that you do not need to do this. Huh!
How to Make Quick And Easy Marmalade...
Ingredients:
4 oranges and 300 grams of sugar.
How to make it the way I made it...
1. Use a very sharp knife, cut off the peels and all the white pith.
2. Cut the oranges in half. Cut out each of the orange segment between the membranes so that you get just the soft flesh and none of the chewy bits. The oranges I used had no seeds but if yours do, remove those, as well.
3. Remove the white pith from the peel. Thinly slice as much, or little, peel as you would like to add to your marmalade. I added about half an orange's worth, wish I had added a bit more. If you leave some pith on, you will get chunkier bits.
4. Put the segments, peels, juices, and sugar into a pot.
5. Warm slowly to melt the sugar first and then bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Turn down the heat and let simmer for 15 minutes.
7. Put into a jam jar. Let cool. Store in fridge. Boom!
Will keep in the fridge for 4 weeks, if it lasts that long.
Tweaks that you can make...
1. Peel the oranges, chop into chunks. Toss everything into the pot, except the seeds. Leave the pith on the peel, slice thinly, add to the pot. This will give you a marmalade that is chunkier and a titch more 'bitter'. Add more sugar to taste, to compensate for the extra.
2. Replace one of the oranges with a lemon for more zing.
I don't remember ever having marmalade at home when I was growing up but fell in love with it when I was doing my nursing practicum in Sweden, about a million years ago. At coffee break time, someone would bring out a tray of marmalade, a block of 'household cheese' (a mild cheese, similar to Fruilano), and crisp bread rolls called 'skorpor' (rusks). We would layer these up and drink lots of strong coffee to get us through the day. I still think about all those great snack foods we ate!
If you are not into dry bread (hah!), here are some of my other favourite ideas for your marmalade...
I love thumbprint cookies! Next to chocolate chip, they are the ones I make most often.
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