Making a large batch of marmalade with ordinary oranges!
Asked on 3 Dec 2020 by lucywhite56
Hello
I have a question about the Traditional Marmalade recipe.
I made it last year (we wanted to make 24 jars but ended up with 35 pots for a school fundraiser) and we would like to do the same again this year but in a larger quantity (100 jars).
However, we found that there was too much water as we multiplied the recipe by 4 to get 24 jars. Do you think that we should reduce the amount of water - is it proportional to the amount of oranges used? Also, we didn't used seville oranges because we weren't able to get any where we live. So perhaps there was more juice in the regular oranges than in the seville oranges?
Thanks for your help. We are making it this Saturday!
Lucy White
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Hello Lucy,
Couple of considerations here!
Are making it in one huge pot? I’m thinking that may mean less surface area / evaporation.
You have a point with regarding the amount of juice in an ordinary orange verses a Servile orange so for ordinary juicy oranges I would use Delia’s Suntina Marmalade recipe and do 1k oranges, 2 lemons, 1.35K (1350g) sugar to 2.1L (2100ml) water.
Good Luck
Lindsey