Orange Marmalade (II)
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- Equal weight of Seville oranges and sugar
- to every lb. of sugar
- 1/2 pint water
Instructions
- Weigh the sugar and oranges, score the skin across, and take it off in quarters.
- Boil these quarters in a muslin bag in water until they are quite soft, and they can be pierced easily with the head of a pin;
- then cut them into chips about 1 inch long, and as thin as possible.
- Should there be a great deal of white stringy pulp, remove it before cutting the rind into chips.
- Split open the oranges, scrape out the best part of the pulp, with the juice, rejecting the white pith and pips.
- Make a syrup with the sugar and water;
- boil it until clear;
- then put in the chips, pulp, and juice, and boil the marmalade from 20 minutes to 1/2 hour, removing all the scum as it rises.
- In boiling the syrup, clear it carefully from scum before the oranges are added to it.