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Orange Marmalade

Orange Marmalade – Light & Fresh is a low-sugar or low-honey cooked marmalade made with Pomona’s Universal Pectin. This is the same recipe you’ll find on the direction and recipe sheet that comes with the pectin. Pomona’s Pectin contains no sugar or preservatives and jells reliably with low amounts of any sweetener.
Servings 7 cups

Ingredients

  • 4 oranges (medium sized)
  • ½ grapefruit see note
  • 3 cups water or orange juice
  • 3 teaspoons calcium water see step #1
  • 3 Tablespoons lemon or lime juice bottled
  • 1 cup to 1½ cups honey or 2 cups to 3 cups sugar
  • 4½ teaspoons Pomona’s pectin powder mixed with sweetener
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Instructions

  • Before You Begin, prepare calcium water.
    To do this, combine ½ teaspoon calcium powder (in the small packet in your box of Pomona’s pectin) with ½ cup water in a small, clear jar with a lid. Shake well.
    Extra calcium water should be stored in the refrigerator for future use.
  • Prepare boiling water canner. Heat jars in simmering water until ready for use. Wash lids and bands and set aside.
  • Peel 2 of the oranges. Scrape the white from the back of the peel. Thinly slice the peel and cut into strips about 1 to 1½ inches long. Put peel slices into sauce pan and set aside.
  • Peel the remaining 2 oranges and the grapefruit. Remove seeds and membrane from all 4 oranges and ½ grapefruit, and finely chop the pulp of all, retaining as much of the juice as possible. Add chopped pulp and juice to the sauce pan with the peel.
  • Add 3 cups water or juice to the sauce pan. Bring fruit to a boil, then turn heat down and simmer covered for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and measure out 6 cups of fruit mixture. Save any extra for another use. Return 6 cups of fruit mixture to the sauce pan.
  • Add calcium water and lemon or lime juice, and mix well.
  • Measure sugar or room temperature honey into a bowl. Thoroughly mix pectin powder into sweetener. Set aside.
  • Bring fruit mixture to a full boil. Add pectin-sweetener mixture, stirring vigorously for 1 to 2 minutes to dissolve the pectin while the marmalade comes back up to a boil. Once the marmalade returns to a full boil, remove it from the heat.
  • Remove hot jars from canner and fill jars with (marmalade/jam/jelly), leaving ¼ inch of headspace. Remove trapped air bubbles, wipe rims and put on lids and screw bands, tightening bands only to “fingertip tight” (until resistance is met, and then just the tiniest bit more).
  • Place jars in the hot water, on the rack inside the canner. (Make sure jars are upright, not touching each other or the sides of the canner, and are covered with at least 1-2 inches of water). Place the lid on the canner, bring the canner to a rolling boil, and boil for 10 minutes. (Add 1 minute additional processing time for every 1000 feet above sea level.)
  • Turn off heat and allow canner and jars to sit for 5 minutes. Then, remove jars from canner. Allow jars to cool undisturbed for 12-24 hours. Then, confirm that jars have sealed, then store properly. Eat within 1 year. Lasts 3 weeks once opened.

Notes

You may use oranges, lemons or limes in place of the grapefruit.