I like orange marmalade. Since I am trying not to buy things that I can make for myself I haven't had orange marmalade in quite some time. Oranges are not commonly grown here and I don't think I have ever seen them at the farmers market so I did have to buy them from the grocery store. So I set out to make my marmalade and first you cut up the oranges, the peel and some water, let this simmer for 5 min. then cover and let sit over night. So check those steps off. Yesterday at the end of my 12 hour wait I start adding the sugar and cooking the marmalade. I cook it until what I thought was the gel stage, it was getting think and it had been boiling for a while so I start putting it in jars. Immediately it is apparent that I don't have enough jars. The recipe said it would make 7 half-pints but what I ended up with was 5 pints, 6 half pints and 5-4oz jars. After processing all those jars the marmalade didn't set.
Today I went and got more jars and lids and opened all of the jars I processed yesterday and tried to re-cook the marmalade. I think that it worked this time. Orange Marmalade at high temperatures is like having a vat of bubbling hot lava on your stove that spits hot sticky goo on you. I have a few burns but I also have Marmalade!
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