Mandarin Shred Marmalade

Total Time: 13 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 12 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 kg mandarin orange, loose skinned
• 1 grapefruit
• 2 lemons
• water
• sugar

Recipe

• 1 peel the mandarins and cut the peel finely with scissors.
• 2 tie finely shredded peel in a muslin bag.
• 3 wash and roughly chop the lemons and grapefruit.
• 4 put the mandarin segments and chopped fruit into a bowl.
• 5 cover with water, place the bag of peel in with the fruit and leave to soak overnight.
• 6 the next day boil all until the fruit is soft and the liquid is reduced by half.
• 7 remove the bag of peel after 20 minutes.
• 8 pour all the fruit through a jelly bag, leaving it to drip awhile, then squeeze it to get all the juice.
• 9 discard the pulp.
• 10 add the sugar to the juice, stirring the sugar until it is dissolved, then add the peel from the muslin bag.
• 11 boil all together until setting point is reached.
• 12 allow to stand, then stir the peel evenly through the mixture.
• 13 bottle and seal.