Marmalade

I haven't posted for ages, but I haven't been slacking in the kitchen.  For a while all my spare time seemed to be getting consumed by preparations for a charity fund raiser craft sale.  In addition to the sewing, knitting, crochet, there was sweet pickle, banana chutney, red onion marmalade and 3 kinds of citrus marmalade to make.

I turned my back on the Lime and Ginger marmalade just a litle too long and cooked it past the ideal setting point (so had to make another batch for the charity sale orders).  That means I have a couple of litres of runny lime and ginger marmalade to use up somehow.

On that basis I deviated a bit from my objective of baking recipes from my childhood collection, and went in search of interesting things to use up lime marmalade.  Watch this space....

Meanwhile I wanted to share this fantastic pink grapefruit marmalade recipe which is so easy we should all be making pink grapefruit marmalade. 

http://notjustanyoldbaking.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pink-grapefruit-marmalade.html

Now that is how a baking blog ought to be - lots of photos, lots of explanation. 

I can't improve on that except to say: know your pink grapefruit - the redder the better.  The first batch I made used ruby grapefruit and was pink/red, the second batch the grapefruits were not so red (more pink than red) inside and the result looked like orange marmalade.


Xmas Trio - Lime & Ginger, Lemon & Honey, Ruby Grapefruit