Marmalade Lady
I am looking forward to this. I hope it turns out. I haven’t tried this before. I have been seeing different posts about marmalade jam and making it without the pectin. I don’t have anything against pectin, I just don’t have any handy. Now, I’ve just looked it up and apparently pectin occurs naturally in fruits and it is sometimes added for additional thickening. I have made strawberry jam with chia seeds for thickening which turned out pretty well I think. Let’s see how orange marmalade turns out. Check out these inspiration pins for different recipes, tips and tricks.
The best part about this project is that I had all the ingredients on hand. There weren’t many. I happened to have just bought a bag of Cuties at Costco and I had just enough sugar, which reminds me, I need to get sugar.
I started out washing the cuties since I was going to use the peels in the jam. I just filled up a bowl with soapy water and cleaned all the skins. The recipe I used called for 3 pounds of oranges which is exactly how much a bag of Cuties weighs (lucky me). The recipe said to use a vegetable peeler to get the skin off but I took a risk, thinking that the skins aren’t very thick on the Cuties and I just peeled all of them. I cut each of the orange sections in half and filled a 2 cup measuring cup. I ended up having some peeed cuties left over which are like candy! I read that if you leave too much of the pith it can make the jam taste bitter, so I got a little nervous about my plan and I decided to scrape the inside of the peels to make sure I cleaned off as much as I could (I just used a spoon to scrape them off ). After slicing the peels into thin little strips I put everything into the pan and cooked it up. It took a little longer than I thought it would to get up to temperature but that didn’t bother me, the house smelled AMAZING!
I also need to learn how to edit better because this picture is HUGE! At least we can all have a good laugh. This is what you might call a “shitty food pic” BUT it tasted amazing. I am very very happy with how it turned out. I would definitely do this again, but it was a little time consuming, not something you can just whip up quick. I ended up getting three small-ish jars so I froze a couple for when my parents come because my dad loves orange marmalade.
