Emma MacDonald

Lime & Lemon Shred Marmalade

Preparation info
  • Makes about:

    2.25 kg

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in
The Art of Preserving: Ancient techniques and modern inventions to capture every season in a jar
The Art of Preserving

By Emma MacDonald

Published 2021

  • About

The combination of these two citrus fruits produces a refreshing, zesty marmalade. Use it to spread on toast or to flavour homemade breakfast muffins.

Ingredients

  • 500 g/1 lb 2 oz limes
  • 250

Method

  1. Halve the limes and lemons and squeeze out the juice and pips. Tie the pips, and any extra membrane that has come away during squeezing, in a piece of muslin/cheesecloth.
  2. Either by hand or using the shredding attachment of a food processor, thinly slice the lime and lemon peel, with its pith, into shreds.
  3. Put the lime and lemon juice and peel, muslin