Marmalade

Makes 6 to 8 regular jam jars

Easiest recipe. Really nice on toast, dry bread with yogurt.

Irene

Marmalade 

Ingredients

3 kg oranges, mandarins

1 cinnamon stick, optional

1 kg white sugar 

Instructions 

Wash and scrub oranges in warm water. Cut in thin slices with peels. Cut a few mandarins without peel. Add mandarins to large pot, and cook over medium heat. Add cinnamon stick. When the fruit starts to boil, start adding adding sugar a bit at a time. 

Simner for 3 hours without lid. Keep to just boiling point. Stir often but slowly. Make sure marmalade doesn't stick to the pot. 

Keep cooking until you get a nice think consistency.Remove cinnamon stick.

Put marmalade in sterilized jars and cool completely before putting lids on jars.

Hints

The more sugar you add, the longer the marmalade will keep. I keep my marmalade in the fridge, so I use 600 kg per 3 kg of mandarins.

I let the jars cool overnight on the counter to make sure it's cool completely before sealing the jars.

Try marmalade on chicken breast with a bit of white wine or chicken broth for the sauce. Add yogurt or cream to chicken just before serving with white rice and broccoli.

Mandarins in pot.

Mandarins 

Marmalade

Jars of marmalade. I keep these in the fridge.

Marmalade for breakfast.