Homemade Citrus Marmalade

Posted on Oct 17, 2010 in Desserts | 23 comments

INGREDIENTS

• 2 oranges
• 1 grapefruit
• 1 lemon
• 2 bergamot
• 1 bigarade
• 2 mandarins

METHOD

1. Wash very well all fruits.
2. Squeeze oranges, grapefruit and mandarins and keep their juices on a bowl.
3. In that bowl add water until you have 1.7lt of liquid.
4. Remove all the peel from the fruits and cut thin sticks or small cubes.
5. In a tulle or very thin cloth put the rest of all fruits and tie well.
6. In a saucepan, add the juice with water, the sticks from the peels and the tulle with the fruits and leave for 1 night.
7. In the morning boil the mixture until half of it remains.
8. Allow to cool and squeeze the tulle with the fruits and weigh the contents of the saucepan.
9. Add as much sugar as the contents of the saucepan is and boil it again until it thickens (about 40 minutes).