Grapefruit And Lemon Marmalade Food

LEMON MARMALADE

Steps:

• Chill a saucer in the freezer, ready for checking the setting point of your jam. Wash the lemons and remove the top 'button' which would have been attached to the stalk. Put the lemons in a large saucepan with 2.5 litres water. Bring to the boil, then cover the pan and simmer for 2½ hrs or until the lemon skins are lovely and tender, and can be pierced easily with a fork.
• When the lemons are cool enough to handle, remove from the saucepan. Measure the cooking liquid - you'll need 1.5 litres in total. If you don't quite have this, make up the difference with water. If you have too much liquid, bring to the boil and reduce to the required amount.
• Halve the lemons and remove the pips - reserving the pips and any lemon juice that oozes out during the process. Cut the lemon peel and flesh into strips, as thick or thin as you like. Put all of this, including any juices, back into the pan. Put the pips in a small piece of muslin and tie up with string. Add this to the pan, as the pips will aid the setting process of the jam.
• Add the sugar and bring to the boil, stirring until it has completely dissolved. Boil rapidly for about 20 mins until setting point is reached. Test the setting point by dropping a little marmalade onto the chilled saucer, allowing it to cool for 1 min, then pushing gently with your finger. If the marmalade crinkles, the setting point is reached; if not, continue to boil and check again in a few mins.
• Leave to cool for 10-15 mins (this will prevent the lemon shreds sinking to the bottoms of the jars), remove the muslin bag, then gently stir in one direction to disperse any scum (small air bubbles on the surface). Pour jam into warm sterilised jars and seal straight away.

GRAPEFRUIT-AND-MEYER-LEMON MARMALADE

Steps:

• Remove the grapefruit skin with a vegetable peeler. Cut the peel into 1/8-inch slivers; stop when you have 3/4 cup. Discard the rest. Slice off the ends of the grapefruit and the remaining grapefruit peel and pith. Remove grapefruit segments, reserving membrane. Stop when you have 5 cups of segments.
• Cut the ends off the Meyer lemons, deep enough so you can see the flesh. Leaving the peel on, remove the segments of lemon and reserve the membrane. Cut the segments crosswise into 1/4-inch pieces. Put membranes from the grapefruit and Meyer lemons in a jelly bag and tie closed.
• In a wide and deep pot, combine the grapefruit segments, grapefruit peel, lemon pieces and jelly bag. Add lemon juice and 2 1/2 cups water. Simmer until the grapefruit peel is tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool.
• Preheat the oven to 225 degrees. Working over a bowl in your sink, squeeze the liquid from the jelly bag; keep squeezing and wringing it out until you extract 1/3 to 1/2 cup of pectin. Add pectin and sugar to the pot. Place over high heat and boil, stirring now and then, until marmalade is between 222 and 225 degrees and passes the plate test. (Spoon a little onto a plate and put in the fridge for 3 minutes. If it thickens like jam, it is done.)
• Meanwhile, put 6 sterilized 8-ounce canning jars and lids on a baking sheet and place in the oven. When jam is done, remove jars from the oven. Ladle jam into the jars, filling them as high as possible. Wipe the rims. Fasten the lid tightly. Let cool. If you don't get a vacuum seal, refrigerate the jam.

RECIPES

Steps:

• Step 1:Using a potato peeler, pare off the grapefruit rind and cut into fine shreds.Step 2:Cut the grapefruit in half and squeeze the juice. Place the juice in a preserving pan.Step 3:Chop the pith and flesh roughly, place in a muslin bag with the pips.Step 4:Cut the lemons in half, squeeze the juice and scoop out the membranes inside.Step 5:Place the pips and membranes in the muslin bag. Cut the lemon rind into shreds and place in the preserving pan with the juice, add the water and muslin bag and simmer for 2 hours.Step 6:Remove the muslin bag and place in a colander over a bowl, press out all the liquid and when cool enough , squeeze the bag well to get out all the essential pectin which will make the marmalade set. Add all the liquid to the preserving pan with the sugar and lime juice if using.Step 7:Stir until completely dissolved then bring to the boil and boil rapidly until setting point is reached this may only take a couple of minutes.Step 8:Remove any scum from the surface and allow the marmalade to cool for 10 minutes before pouring into warmed sterilised jars. Seal, label and store for up to a year.

TRADITIONAL CITRUS MARMALADE

Steps:

• Wash mason jars and screw lids in soapy water and rinse soap off well under running hot water. Place clean jars on a baking sheet and place in oven preheated to 200 degrees. Set screw bands aside. Next, boil a kettle of water and pour into a clean glass bowl. Carefully submerge the sealing discs in the bowl of hot water. Set aside.
• Wash the fruit very well and dry with paper towels. Using a very sharp knife, cut each piece of fruit in half lengthwise. Next, very thinly slice across each piece of fruit. Once sliced, cut each slice into roughly one-inch pieces.
• Place all fruit into a large sauce pan or pot. Add the water and bring to a boil. Cover continue to gently boil for 45 minutes.
• Add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Bring to a boil. Continue to boil uncovered over medium heat for one hour - stirring frequently.
• In the meantime, fill your water bath canner to the halfway mark with water and add the jar rack. Bring to a full boil.
• Ladle the marmalade into prepared mason jars using a funnel to prevent the sauce from touching the rim of the jars.
• Use the non-metallic bubble remover to remove any air bubbles.
• Wipe down the rim of each jar with a damp paper towel to ensure no sauce has come in contact with the rim.
• Carefully remove the sealing discs from the hot water with a magnetic lid lifter. Position the sealing disc directly onto the lid of the jars. Do not touch the underside of the lid.
• Screw on the screw bands until firm - do not apply pressure! Just use your fingertips to tighten the screw bands.
• Using the jar lifter, place the jars into the water bath canner with the boiling water. Do not place the lid on the canner.
• Boil for 20 minutes. Carefully remove each jar from the canner using the jar lifter. Try not to tilt the jars. Place jars onto a wire cooling rack that has been covered with a clean kitchen towel.
• Leave the jars to cool for a minimum of 12 hours. Once cooled, wipe the jars of any residue that might have been transferred to the outside of the jar during the boiling process. Label the jars and store in a dark, cool cabinet for up to one year.

GRAPEFRUIT MARMALADE

Steps:

• Bring a large, covered pot of water to boil with the whole citrus fruit. This Cuisinart pot from Amazon is a decent size for the job. Boil the fruit until they are very tender and soft. Grapefruit take about 2.5 hours. Drain the fruit and let them cool slightly before proceeding.
• Place a cutting board inside a rimmed baking sheet (these Nordic Ware sheet pans from Amazon are great). This is to catch all the citrus juices! Slice each fruit in half to expose the seeds. Remove the seeds if there are any, then quarter each half. Seperate the flesh from the peel so that you can slice the peel thinly and chop the flesh, removing any membranes if they are tough. Transfer the sliced peel, flesh, and juices into a large pot (like this Cuisinart pot from Amazon).
• To the large pot of chopped fruit, add the sugar and the lemon juice. Clip on your thermometer (like this fast-reading digital thermometer from Thermoworks). Bring the mixture to a boil on medium-high, stirring with a wooden spoon or heatproof spatula (grab this spatula from Amazon). When the mixture is boiling, this is when you want to start monitoring the temperature. Boil the mixture, stirring constantly, until it reaches 220°F (104-105 ºC). When the marmalade reaches this temperature, slide the pan off the heat, and let it cool for 2 minutes, then add the vanilla bean paste and give the marmalade a good stir. This is to ensure that your canned marmalade will have an even dispersion of peel/fruit and vanilla bean seeds.
• Divide the mixture between 5 or 6 sterilized jars (I prefer wide-mouth mason jars like these Ball jars on Amazon), leaving a headspace of 1/4 inch. If the 6th jar has a larger headspace, you are just going to have to eat it. Just kidding. Well, except that you can't seal it to store at room temperature, so that will be your jar to enjoy right away, storing it in the fridge. Wipe the rims of all the jars with a lightly moistened paper towel. Top each of the jars with a sterilized lid, and tighten the band until it is finger tight. The Ball canning kit on Amazon is key for this step and the next! Get it on Amazon
• Line a rimmed baking sheet with a large kitchen towel (these Nordic Ware sheet pans from Amazon are great). This will be the "cooling station" for the processed jars. To seal the jars, place them in a large pot, with a towel at the bottom to prevent them from rattling and cracking. Fill the pot with hot water so that the jars are completely immersed. Bring the pot of water to a boil with the lid on and once the boiling point has been reached, boil the jars for 5 minutes. Then take the pan off the heat, and let the jars stand in the pan for another 5 minutes. Finally, carefully remove the jars from the water bath and place them on the towel-lined baking sheet. You will hear a popping sound soon after, a good sign that the vacuum seal is proper. Let the jars cool, untouched, for 24 hours before putting them away.

ORANGE LEMON GRAPEFRUIT MARMALADE

Steps:

• Squeeze juice from fruit and keep.
• Slice fruit thinly.
• Quickly wash sliced peel in cold water and rinse.
• Add water and juice.
• Keep for 3 hours in a cool place.
• Cook in a heavy saucepan for 30 minutes medium heat.
• Add sugar and cook and stir another 20-30 minutes on high heat.
• Pour into sterilised jars.

GRAPEFRUIT MARMALADE

Steps:

• Sterilise the jars you'll be using to store the marmalade.Choose glass jars with an airtight, metal lid and ensure they have been washed in the dishwasher or by hand in hot soapy water then rinsed well.Check that the metal lids do not have rubber inserts. (See Note 9)Preheat the oven to 130 Degrees C (270 F) and place the jars in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
• Place 2 saucers or small plates in the freezer, ready to check for the setting point of your marmalade.Thoroughly wash the grapefruit and lemon. Remove each end of the grapefruit to get rid of excess pith. Remove each end of the lemon. Cut the grapefruit and lemon into quarters length ways. Holding two of the quarters together, slice as thinly as possible and remove any seeds.
• Place the citrus slices in a non-reactive bowl. See Note 4. Add the 6 cups of water, cover the bowl and leave the fruit to stand overnight, up to 24 hours. If your bowl is not large enough to accommodate all the water, add what you can and add the remainder the following day. It's best to make a note of what you have added.The following day, place the fruit and water into a very large, non-reactive saucepan. - See Note 5.
• Over medium-high heat, bring the fruit and water to the boil. Rapidly boil for approximately 15 minutes or until the peel is tender, stirring occasionally with a long-handled wooden spoon - See Note 6.
• Add the sugar and stir well to dissolve it. After dissolving the sugar, return the fruit to the boil, stirring occasionally. Continue to stir until the marmalade reaches setting point - I start to check at about 10 minutes. When the very aggressive bubbles subside to a slower, gentler boil, that's an indication that your marmalade may have reached setting point - See Note 7.Remove from the heat to conduct the wrinkle test. If not set, continue to boil for another 1 minute and then test again.
• To test for setting point, I use the "wrinkle" test. Take one of your saucers from the freezer and pour a small amount of marmalade onto it. Let it cool for a minute then push against the marmalade with the tip of your finger. If the surface wrinkles slightly, it means setting point has been reached.Alternatively, if you are not confident checking this way or are not experienced at making marmalade, you can use the fail-safe method of using a jam/candy thermometer which you clip to the side of your saucepan. When attaching your thermometer, make sure that the base is not touching the bottom of the saucepan. Your marmalade has reached setting point when the temperature reaches 104.5 degree C or 220 degrees F. (Taking it much higher than this will result in the marmalade being overboiled, the pectin being destroyed, and therefore, your marmalade will not set.)At this time, your marmalade will look very liquidy - it can take 24-48 hours to completely cool and set.Please note, this recipe will produce marmalade which has a soft set; it will not be as firm as many commercial varieties which often contain additives.
• Take the mixture off the heat. If there is any scum on the marmalade, add a teaspoon of butter and stir; that should settle the scum.
• Let the marmalade stand for about 10 minutes to allow the fruit to settle. If you bottle it immediately, the fruit will not be evenly distributed but will settle at the top of the jar.
• Remove your jars from the oven and carefully ladle the marmalade into the heated, sterilised jars. The jars should be filled as full as possible to minimise the amount of air between the marmalade and the lid. The marmalade should not touch the lid. Seal tight once filled with marmalade. See Note 8You need to be very careful. Splashing yourself with hot marmalade will result in a very serious burn. I suggest you have clothing with long sleeves and ensure that you do not have children nearby.

ORANGE-GRAPEFRUIT MARMALADE WITH GINGER

Steps:

• Cut fruit in half, squeeze out juice and pulp, discard seeds. The volume of this should be approximately 4 cups. Remove zest, this should yield approximately 1/2 cup. Transfer juice, pulp and zest to a large glass bowl. Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours. This helps the peel to soften.
• After soaking, put the citrus in a large stockpot. Add 6 cups of water, simmer for 1 1/2 hours. A sample of the peel should feel quite tender if rubbed between fingers. Add sugar and ginger. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Boil hard for 20 minutes until sugar is dissolved and mixture is thickened. If the mixture foams up, add a pat of butter and the froth will subside.
• Test for jell-point: drop a small amount of hot marmalade on a chilled plate. Return to the freezer for 1 minute. If surface forms a skin, it has reached jelling point, if still syrupy, continue cooking and test again in 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat, stir in pectin. Cool for 15 minutes, spoon into half-pint sterilized jars leaving 1/4-inch headspace and seal.
• ** Recipe Note: Traditionally the citrus seeds and pith are enclosed in a nylon bag and boiled along with the juice/pulp. This releases the natural pectin that is stored in that part of the orange. For time and ease, we eliminated that step and used store-bought fruit pectin. It worked very well.
• ***To sterilize the canning jars, wash the containers in hot, soapy water and rinse. Boil them in a large pot for 10 minutes. Keep the jars in hot water until ready to use to prevent the jars from cracking. Dry with paper towels before filling with marmalade. Once filled, put on lids and collar. Boil again for 10 minutes to seal the jars.

GRAPEFRUIT AND MANDARIN MARMALADE

Steps:

• First, you will need to peel the rind off of the lemon and grapefruits and thinly slice the rind into small strips. until you have around 2 cups of the rind.
• Place the rind in a saucepan along with 2-3 cups of water and bring to the boil then simmer for 10 minutes. This will help to soften the rind and make it less bitter. Once the rind has been simmering for 10 mins, discard the water and rinse.
• Peel the white bits (the pith) off of the citrus and break up the segments and place them in the saucepan, discarding any pips.
• Pour in 2.5 cups of water and the lemon juice and bring to the boil.
• Add the sugar and stir. Leave to simmer for around 45 minutes or until the marmalade has reduced and thickened.
• If you need to test whether your marmalade is thick enough, Pop a plate in the freezer for at least 20-30 minutes. Once you think that your Marmalade has reached its setting point or has thickened, spoon some of the Marmalade on to the plate and tilt it vertically so the Marmalade runs. You are aiming for the marmalade to be running down the plate slowly... not a runny mess.
• Once the marmalade is ready, leave it to cool slightly before pouring it into the sterilised glass jars.

THREE FRUIT MARMALADE

Steps:

• Bring a large, covered pot of water to boil with the whole citrus fruit. This Cuisinart pot from Amazon is a decent size for the job. Boil the fruit until they are very tender and soft. The lemon will take about an hour, while the oranges take the full 2 hours. The grapefruit take about an hour and a half. Drain the fruit and let them cool slightly before proceeding.
• Place a cutting board inside a rimmed baking sheet (these Nordic Ware sheet pans from Amazon are great). This is to catch all the citrus juices! Slice each fruit in half to expose the seeds. Remove the seeds, then quarter each half. Remove the flesh and chop it up. Slice the peel finely (if you have the patience). Transfer the sliced peel, chopped fruit flesh and juices into a large pot (like this Cuisinart pot from Amazon).
• To the large pot of chopped fruit, add the sugar and the lemon juice. Clip on your thermometer (like this fast-reading digital thermometer from Thermoworks). Bring the mixture to a boil on medium-high, stirring with a wooden spoon or heatproof spatula (grab this spatula from Amazon). When the mixture is boiling, this is when you want to start monitoring the temperature. Boil the mixture, stirring constantly, until it reaches 220°F. When the marmalade reaches this temperature, slide the pan off the heat, and let it cool for 2 minutes, then give it a good stir. This is to ensure that your canned marmalade will have an even dispersion of peel/fruit.
• Divide the mixture between 5 sterilized jars (I prefer wide-mouth mason jars like these Ball jars on Amazon), leaving a headspace of 1/4 inch. If the 5th jar has a larger headspace, you are just going to have to eat it. Just kidding. Well, except that you can't can it, so that will be your jar to enjoy right away, storing it in the fridge. Wipe the rims of all the jars with a lightly moistened paper towel. Top each of the jars with a sterilized lid, and tighten the band until it is finger tight. The Ball canning kit on Amazon is key for this step and the next! Get it on Amazon
• Line a rimmed baking sheet with a large kitchen towel (these Nordic Ware sheet pans from Amazon are great). This will be the "cooling station" for the processed jars. To seal the jars, place them in a large pot, with a towel at the bottom to prevent them from rattling and cracking. Fill the pot with hot water so that the jars are completely immersed. Bring the pot of water to a boil with the lid on and once the boiling point has been reached, boil the jars for 5 minutes. Then take the pan off the heat, and let the jars stand in the pan for another 5 minutes. Finally, carefully remove the jars from the water bath and place them on the towel-lined baking sheet. You will hear a popping sound soon after, a good sign that the vacuum seal is proper. Let the jars cool, untouched, for 24 hours before putting them away.

ORANGE AND GRAPEFRUIT MARMALADE

Steps:

• Place a saucer in the fridge (it's used to test the setting point, and needs to be cold). Take a large pan and put it on the hob on a high heat, add to this your 2 litres of water. Wash your oranges and grapefruit carefully under the cold tap (it should be unwaxed fruit you use). When the pan is boiling turn it down to a simmer and put the fruit in. Let it simmer away until the fruit is really soft - this will take between 10 and 20 minutes (roughly), depending on the size and ripeness of the fruit. Take them out of the pan and allow to cool, keep the poaching liquid. Chop each fruit in half, scoop out the flesh and put it in a sieve over a bowl. Remove the root of the stem (the little bit where the oranges were attached to the tree) and then slice. The thickness is up to you, based on how you like your marmalade, mine is probably a medium cut. You may need to half some of your slices so they're not too long when it comes to spreading them on your toast. Take about 500ml of the liquid out of the pan (so there is roughly 1.5 litres remaining) and then bring the pan back to a simmer. Add in about a third of the sugar, stirring to dissolve, then repeat twice more until all the sugar dissolves in the pan. Take your peels and return them to the pot. Pour in the juices from the bowl and add to the pot then place your sieve of citrus flesh over the pan. Mine went into the water by about 2-3cm, if yours doesn't reach you can put it in a muslin bag or a very, very clean dish towel (that you don't mind ruining). Stir everything together and turn up the heat so the pan starts reducing down. Let it bubble away (you need to watch it so that it doesn't boil over) and let your kitchen slowly fill with a delicious aroma of oranges, grapefruit and hot sugar. If you are using the sieve method, lift it up and press the juices out a few times and only leave it over the top for about 10 minutes. Once it's boiling wash your jars in hot soapy water, rinse thoroughly (no one likes soapy marmalade), then put in the oven at about 80 C to sterilise. Make sure to skim off any scum that comes to the top of the pan and remember to stir every so often to make sure the fruit is evenly distributed. The length of time it will take to boil down will vary between pans and volumes of water involved, but it should take somewhere between 25-40 minutes to reach the point where it feels much thicker as you're stirring it. At this point take your saucer from the fridge and drop about a teaspoon (or so) worth of the mix onto the cold plate. Leave it for about 20 seconds and then run your finger through the middle. If the mixture wrinkles around your finger turn off the heat, if it remains runny leave to boil for another few minutes. Once ready, place your jars on a cooling rack beside the hob. Hold the jar with an oven mitt or similar and using a large spoon carefully fill the jars with marmalade. Fill them virtually to the top and place a small circle of greaseproof paper in the top (get it ready-cut, I would say). Leave for ten minutes and then seal on the lids.

GRAPEFRUIT MARMALADE

Steps:

• Cut all the grapefruits in half and squeeze the juice from each through a fine sieve into a bowl and reserve, keeping any pips. Cut the grapefruit halves again into quarters and, if the pith is very thick, carefully remove some until the rind is ½cm-1cm thick. Put any trimmed pith and pips into a clean muslin cloth and seal tightly with string or a rubber band to make a bag.
• Slice the remaining grapefruit rind into 1-2mm slices. Put the sliced rind and muslin into a large pan with 1.5 litres of water, bring to the boil and simmer very gently for 2 hours until nearly all of the water has evaporated.
• Remove the muslin bag from the pan and use a pair of tongs to squeeze out the pectin-rich liquid back into the pan with the rind. Put a small clean plate in the freezer.
• Pour the sugars and the reserved grapefruit juice into the pan and bring back to a gentle simmer to dissolve the sugar. Put a sugar thermometer into the pan, turn up the heat and boil for 15-20 minutes, stirring regularly to avoid it catching, until it reaches 105C.
• Remove the plate from the freezer and spoon a little of the marmalade onto the plate. Gently push the marmalade with the back of a spoon - if it's at the right setting point, a rippled skin will appear on the top. If no ripple appears, return the plate to the freezer, boil the marmalade for another 5 minutes, then try again. Repeat until necessary.
• Stir the lemon juice through the marmalade and pour into sterilised jars and seal. It will keep in the fridge for 6 months.

GRAPEFRUIT AND LEMON MARMALADE

Steps:

• Pare off the grapefruit rind into fine shreds with a potato peeler. Halve it and squeeze the juice into a preserving pan. Chop the pith and flesh, place in a muslin bag with the pips.
• Cut the lemon in half, squeeze the juice and scoop out the membranes, then place in the bag. Cut the rind into shreds and place in the pan with the juice, add the water and bag and simmer for 2 hours.
• Remove the bag and place in a colander over a bowl, press out the liquid and, when cool enough, squeeze the bag to get out the essential pectin which will make the marmalade set. add the liquid to the pan with the sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then bring to the boil and boil rapidly until setting point is reached, - this might only take a couple of minutes., Remove any scum from the surface and cool for 10 minutes before pouring into warmed sterilised jars.