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🍽️ Homemade Orange Marmalade

783 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Wash the oranges under hot water and pat them dry.
  2. 2. Peel off the orange zest and set it aside.
  3. 3. Cut the oranges in half and squeeze the juice through a cloth into a pot.
  4. 4. Tie the squeezed orange pulp into a cloth or a linen bag.
  5. 5. Hang the bag with the pulp into the pot with the juice.
  6. 6. Pour 1 liter of water and the previously removed zest into the pot.
  7. 7. Bring the mixture to a boil and stir occasionally.
  8. 8. Simmer the mixture for about 30 minutes until the peels are soft.
  9. 9. Turn off the heat and remove the cloth with the peel remnants.
  10. 10. Let the peel remnants in the cloth cool down.
  11. 11. Pour the juice into a measuring cup to determine the amount of sugar.
  12. 12. Weigh about 225 g of sugar for every 250 ml of juice.
  13. 13. Sprinkle the sugar into the pot with the juice.
  14. 14. Add the peel strips back into the pot.
  15. 15. Squeeze the cloth with the peel remnants well and scrape the bag with a spoon.
  16. 16. Simmer the marmalade for another 10 to 20 minutes.
  17. 17. Stir occasionally and skim off the foam that forms.
  18. 18. Perform a gel test after about 10 minutes.
  19. 19. Drop 1 teaspoon of the hot liquid onto a small cold plate.
  20. 20. If the liquid is still runny, continue cooking.
  21. 21. If the liquid sets, the marmalade is ready.
  22. 22. Turn off the heat.
  23. 23. Fill the marmalade into jars that have been rinsed with hot water or boiled.
  24. 24. Seal the jars immediately.
  25. 25. Turn the jars occasionally while cooling to distribute the peels evenly.

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