An Easy Way of Making Orange Marmalade

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 150 min Total: 150 min
Status
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (6)
  1. Choose some fine Seville oranges; put them whole into a stewpan with sufficient water to cover them, and stew them until they become perfectly tender, changing the water 2 or 3 times.
  2. Drain them, take off the rind, remove the pips from the pulp, weigh it.
  3. Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes.
  4. Put in the pulp, boil for another 10 minutes.
  5. Then add the peel cut into strips, and boil the marmalade for another 10 minutes, which completes the process.
  6. Pour it into jars; let it cool; then cover down with bladders, or tissue-paper brushed over on both sides with the white of an egg.
Original Text
AN EASY WAY OF MAKING ORANGE MARMALADE. 1568. INGREDIENTS.—To every lb. of pulp allow 1-1/2 lb. of loaf sugar. Mode.—Choose some fine Seville oranges; put them whole into a stewpan with sufficient water to cover them, and stew them until they become perfectly tender, changing the water 2 or 3 times; drain them, take off the rind, remove the pips from the pulp, weigh it, and to every lb. allow 1-1/2 of loaf sugar and 1/2 pint of the water the oranges were last boiled in. Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes; put in the pulp, boil for another 10 minutes; then add the peel cut into strips, and boil the marmalade for another 10 minutes, which completes the process. Pour it into jars; let it cool; then cover down with bladders, or tissue-paper brushed over on both sides with the white of an egg. Time.—2 hours to boil the oranges; altogether 1/2 hour to boil the marmalade. Average cost, from 6d. to 8d. per lb. pot. Seasonable—Make this in March or April.
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