Windfall marmalade

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    1.3

    kg
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Jam Maker's Garden: Grow Your Own Seasonal Preserves

By Holly Farrell

Published 2017

  • About

Marmalade ingredients need not be restricted to oranges, and this alternative is a brilliant way to avoid wasting windfall apples. Red grapefruits give this marmalade a traditional colour and provide the shredded peel. As the windfall apples are likely to have large bruises, take out any bad bits before weighing them.

Ingredients

  • 2 red grapefruit
  • 500 g/1 lb 2 oz

Method

  • Using a potato peeler, pare the peel from the grapefruit and shred it finely into short lengths. Cut the flesh away from the pith. Put the pith into a jelly bag, and chop the flesh into small pieces, removing any membranes while doing so to prevent them persisting as lumps in the final marmalade.
  • Add the apple peel and cores into the jelly bag, and place the apple s