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Victorian Marmalade
Whole Fruit - Ideal for small batches.

Makes a robust, full flavored marmalade with lots of peel. It's just, not, cheap!

Any type of Citrus Fruit can be used. The basic proportions are 1-1-1 for fruit, water, liquid.

Lets presume you have 6 Seville oranges that weigh 1kg (1000g)

  1. Wash the fruit, weigh and note the weight. 1000g
  2. Select a sauce pan just large enough for the fruit to sit on the bottom.
  3. Add 1000g+15%=1150g of water, fruit should be covered/floating. You need enough water but not too much as it will be used later.
  4. Boil the fruit until tender and soft, the fruit may collapse a bit. Probably take about 1.5 hours, roll over occasionally.
  5. Remove from heat, drain off and retain liquid, allow to cool.
  6. - - - Note: Jam pot should be quite deep, only fill ¼, mixture will spit and can boil up.
  7. Working on a tray (to retain liquid), cut fruit in half and scrape contents into a course metal sieve. Allow to drain then remove pips/pits/seeds, or work pulp through sieve. Place all but pips/pits/seeds in jam pot. If you measure out your 1000g of retained liquid, use it to thin out the pulp/pip mixture while sieving.
  8. Cut peel into suitable size strips/bits and place in jam pot. We use all of the peel, you may want less. We think ½ would be more than MaMade
  9. Add about 1000g or less of the retained liquid. Too much liquid will have to be boiled off.
  10. Place a test plate in your fridge.
  11. Add 1000g of sugar, mix, then bring to a boil. Stir frequently. Keep the heat as low as possible to maintain a good boil. Helps to prevent burning.
  12. When boiling you are looking for a finish temperature of 219-220f (103.5c) measured at centre of jam pot and liquid:
  13. When mixture is reaching finish temperature:
  14. Remove from heat:
  15. The 6 oranges make about 3-4 medium size(½ pint) bottles. We sterilize our bottles in oven 225f (107c) for 10-15 minutes

31 May 2025 we used 22 oranges to make 2 batches yielding 4 pint jars + 7 ½ pint jars

If we cannot obtain Seville Oranges - 2 table/sweet Oranges + 1 Lemon produces a similar Marmalade.

Have also tried - 2 Grapefruit 2 oranges 1 lemon.
Experimenting? Just use 1 orange.