[cheshirecheese]

The recipe I use is from one of my favourite books, Atkinson & Mayhew's 'Preserves & Pickles'.  It's for Pink Grapefruit and Cranberry Marmalade, and makes a very pretty gift for this time of year with the cranberries giving it a Crimbo theme.  Very easy to make, too!

675g Pink Grapefruit
Juice & Pips of 2 Lemons
900ml Water
225g Cranberries
1300g Granulated Sugar, Warmed

(So basically, the grapefruit need to weigh approximately three times the weight of the cranberries).

Wash, halve and quarter the grapefruit, then slice them thinly, reserving any pips and juice.
Tie grapefruit and lemon pips in muslin, and place in pan with grapefruit slices and lemon juice.
Add water and bring to the boil.  Cover and simmer gently for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, until grapefruit is very tender.
Remove the muslin bag, and when cool enough to handle, squeeze over the pan.
Add the cranberries, then bring to the boil.  Simmer for 15-20 mins until the berries have popped and softened.
Add the warmed sugar to the pan and stir over a low heat until dissolved.
Bring to the boil and boil rapidly for about 10 minutes or until a set is achieved.

[blackberryjam]

I'd never been keen on marmalade, until my mum brought a jar back from Somerset , homemade Orange and Ginger marmalade ,lovely wish I could get the recipe.

[devonbarmygardener]

You could just make marmalade and add grated fresh ginger to the last few minutes of boiling or chop up crystalised ginger very small and add it just before it finishes boiling.
Or you can just add the ginger spice, perhaps with a bit of cinnamon for spiced marmalade

[mumofstig]

simple recipe here
http://localfoods.about.com/od/chutneysmarmalades/r/Ginger-Orange-Marmalade.htm

[Mrs Bee]

I'd never been keen on marmalade, until my mum brought a jar back from Somerset , homemade Orange and Ginger marmalade ,lovely wish I could get the recipe.

I have just made some so here you are.

3lb Seville oranges
2 lemons
8og grated fresh ginger
1 jar of preserved ginger, the ginger should be sliced into Julienne.
6lb sugar

Halve oranges and lemons, and squeeze out the juice. I use the juicer on my magimix.
Halve the orange shells and scrape out the fibrous membranes. put the pips and fibrous membranes into a butter muslin bag or sheet of muslin. Tie and put in the preserving pan with 5 pints of water and leave overnight.

Slice the orange and lemon shells very thinly and add to the pan.
Simmer until the peel is so soft you can squeeze it in your fingers and it will disintegrate.
Take out the muslin bag and allow to cool, then squeeze the juices from the bag into the pan and then discard the bag.
Add the sugar and stir  over a low heat to dissolve the sugar.
Add the syrup from the jar of ginger to the pan and a teaspoon of sunflower oil. (this will prevent a scum forming).
Bring to a rolling  boil till you get a set.

Once tested for a set add the ginger from the jar of ginger stir and pot.

if you can only get sweet oranges then slice the oranges thinly, removing any pips, and put the pips in the muslin bag with the lemon pips and membranes and continue as above.

I also have this recipe which I have not yet made but it is on the list for this week.
450g Seville oranges
1.4kg cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced
3 kg sugar
225g preserved ginger
4 tsp ground ginger

Peel the oranges and shred the peel finely.
Cut the oranges in half and squeeze to remove the juice.
Apple peel and orange membrane, pith and pips in muslin bag.
Put oranges, muslin bag, 5 pints water in the pan simmer for about 1 and 1/2 hours until the peel is very soft and the contents of the pan are reduced by half.
Put the sliced apples in 1/4 pint water and simmer until soft and pulped.
Put all the ingredients together with a teaspoon of sunflower oil, simmer until the sugar has dissolved and boil to a set.
Allow the marmalade to stand for 15 mins, stir to evenly distribute the peel  and ginger and pot.

[blackberryjam]

  Thanks  Mrs Bee 

[devonbarmygardener]

The orange supermarket has had Seville oranges lately

[Mrs Bee]

  Thanks  Mrs Bee 

My pleasure.

Waitrose and Morrison's also had Sevilles.

I left it too late to get any from Spitalfields this year but it did me a favour as I didn't realise how much space in the freezers were taken up with unused Sevilles from last year.

So I am using up what I already have.

[chrissie B]

I do the orange and apple recipie from an old book I found in a charity shop  100 ways with apples its a good way to use up surplus apples and it brings down the cost and gives you more marmalade and a great set even my kids have requested more and that's saying something
chrissie b