Marmalade

I've made this marmalade a few times before. Its a recipe from the Home Cookbook by Monty and Sarah Don. It's (apparently) the original Keiller recipe from the famous Keiller family from Dundee, Scotland, who is a relative of Monty Don.

 

Recipe

 

900g Seville oranges

1 lemon

1.8 kg sugar

2 litres water

 

I decided to cut the oranges (and lemon) very finely this time so that the marmalade has fine pieces of orange in it. This is time consuming but I like doing it so don't mind!

 



 

Once this is done the oranges and lemon are cooked for about 3 hours until the rind is soft and the water reduced to one half of the original 2 litres

 

The sugar is added next and once this has dissolved the marmalade is hard boiled. At this stage do not stir the marmalade. I did this once and the sugar crystallized and the marmalade was inedible!

 

Once the marmalade has thickened and rested for 10 minutes you can pour it in to warmed sterilised jars. It stores for 2 years but never lasts that long in my house!

 

It has a lovely rich orangey flavour but the addition of a lemon means it isn't cloyingly sweet.