Grapefruit-Orange Jarmalade
No, jarmalade isn't a typo. I'll explain later.
I made a batch of candied grapefruit and orange peel recenty, leaving me with quite a lot of naked fruit. We're not big on citrus juice, so I stuck all of the fruit in a ziplock and stashed it in the fridge, thinking I'd make a big fruit salad or something. Two days later I came across the bag of abandoned fruit and felt guilty. So I went surfing for orange grapefruit jam recipes. I have to say I didn't find much, and what I did find was extremely vague.
As an example:
2 1b. peeled grapefruit, 2 1b. peeled navel oranges, 12 1b. sugar, 15 pints very hot (not boiling) water. Remove pips from fruit, finely slice it and pour over it the hot water, allow to stand overnight, boil slowly till tender (about 2 hours), add heated sugar and boil quickly till it jells (about 1 hour), stand 10 minutes or longer before bottling, seal.
Twelve pounds of sugar?! Obviously a typo. As other recipes were similar I went with this one, correcting the amount of sugar to 2 pounds (a little over 4 cups). I cut some of the left-over candied peel into fine strips and added it with the sugar (further reducing the amount of sugar to compensate), as I really do love marmalade and wanted to approximate it. All of this resulted in a very deep red-orange "jarmalade" which is pretty tasty.
Looks good. I'd love to try it with blood oranges - if I ever see them. I live in the produce doldrums. Quince? Kumquats? Meyer lemons? Distant and dreamy exotica. I'm lucky to find fennel.
I bet it would be delicious with yogurt (my new favorite "healthy" dessert - goat yogurt with membrillo.) I'm going through a jam and jelly phase, I guess. :)
My grandmother also puts homemade raspberry jelly and raspberries on warm tapioca . . . .
Posted by: Karyn | January 05, 2008 at 01:14 PM
Homemade marmalade is the most comforting sweet thing in the world for me. I've never made grapefruit---just orange and lemon---though I'm sure I'd love it!
Posted by: clumsy | January 05, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Sounds lovely, especially with a bit less sugar than normal. I'm a big marmalade fan but my absolute fave (in case you ever see any) is marmalade made with a bit of whisky in it
Posted by: Sophie | January 05, 2008 at 05:40 PM
What a drool worthy photo! I've never attempted jelly, jam or marmalade making :( I'm sure it would taste superior to any store-bought!
Posted by: JEP | January 05, 2008 at 06:39 PM
If you like marmalade (me too, yum!), you should try the blood orange marmalade from this Epicurious goat cheese crostini with blood orange and black pepper marmalade:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/240672
I made this for my big holiday party this year and it was a big hit. It was fantastic on the goat cheese crostini but I think it would be equally good on a toasted English muffin.
I wrote my party menu up on my blog if you're interested in the other things I served along side this fun tid-bit:
http://everydayfoodie.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/holiday-cooking-what-worked-well-what-didnt/
Posted by: Natanya | January 05, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Awesome. We are more of a juice than marmalade family, though :)
By the way... Add "heated" sugar? What the?!
Posted by: Manggy | January 06, 2008 at 12:53 AM
This looks good! And I agree with Karyn, I think an addition of blood oranges woud be beautiful!
Ronell
Posted by: myfrenchkitchen | January 06, 2008 at 03:54 AM
Never tried 'jarmalade' but it sounds good! Just a while ago I had to make some jam out of a huge melon that was getting rotten. It ended up as some Christmas gifts and it was very much appreciated!
Posted by: Suzana | January 06, 2008 at 01:23 PM
Twelve pounds of sugar would be a little frightening! This looks so yummy!
Posted by: sugarlaws | January 07, 2008 at 10:04 AM
That looks so tasty. Thank goodness it wasn't actually 12 pounds of sugar!
Posted by: SeitanSaidDance | January 08, 2008 at 04:52 PM
Karyn, yogurt and marmelade sounds lovely!
clumsy, and I have never made lemon marmelade, though I am sure I'd love it! :-)
Sophie, great name, as I'm sure my daughter (also a Sophie) would agree! Whiskey, eh? I am intrigued!
JEP, always love it when you drop by. You must try making your own sometime!
Natanya, thanks for the tips!
Manggy, yes it was an odd recipe, for sure. I just kind of guessed where I needed to. :-)
Ronell, I think blood oranges make anything look beautiful. :-)
Suzana, hmmm... melon jam. I've never had any. Must try it, definitely!
sugarlaws, twelve pounds of sugar would surely mean an instant coma!
SeitanSaidDance, can you imagine an inexperienced cook following that recipe literally?! :-)
Posted by: Ann | January 09, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Ann, this looks absolutely yummy. I have just finished making Seville marmalade, but grapefruits are my husbands favourite and he loves the juice, so maybe I will find a use for all the peels. Your picture is just beautiful, it reminds me of my great grandmother's VOC crockery.
Posted by: african vanielje | February 01, 2008 at 10:56 AM
that recipe is hi-fricking-larious. i fancy myself a decent cook, and i find it to be complete jibberish - could it really have meant something to someone at sometime? maybe it's an elaborate prank.
good thing you went our on your own, because your jarmelade (my new favorite word of the day) looks scrumptious!
Posted by: michelle @ TNS | March 17, 2008 at 07:00 PM