This recipe is about having 10 oranges just sitting around, and having a bag of cranberries (frozen), and thinking that it should be Autumn, rather than it really feeling like Winter. So, we made a marmalade of sorts.
Cranberry Orange Marmalade:
- 10 Navel Oranges
- 1 bag Cranberries
- 1.5 Cups Sugar
- 3 Tbsp Agar Flakes
- Using a vegetable peeler, peel the orange zest from your oranges.
- Snip, chop, or julienne the zest into little pieces.
- Slice away the pith of the oranges.
- Supreme your oranges, squeezing the juice from the membranes when you’re done (and adding that juice to the pot).
- Cook everything on the stove until your massive cauldron of canning liquid comes up to a boil (approximately 30 minutes).
- Can according to your canning instructions (sterilization, cleanliness, all that good stuff), leaving 1/2″ of “head space” using boiling water process canning method* for 30 minutes.
- Let them cool by themselves, and refrigerate any jar which hasn’t sealed.
*Note: if you would like a very loose syrupy sauce, go ahead and pressure can these. If you want things to turn out right, don’t let your paranoia get the better of you. Pressure canning destroys pectins, so it’s not your friend!
When we came to Scotland we left a lot of things behind – either sold, given away, or just plain thrown away. Of those things which stayed with us was The Canning Cauldron. To call this a pot, or a kettle … well, that’s just the understatement of the century! Notice that it’s on the handy double-burner and it dwarfs the range?
And why did we go to the trouble to fire this up, when all we needed to can was two small jars of marmalade? Well, firstly, because the larger jar was just this much too tall to be canned in anything else. And, secondly, because we’ve been without hot water or heat for several weeks, now (except that our shower is an electric shower). Hot showers just don’t do the trick, when what you really want is a hot bath!
The cauldron served to fill the bathtub with enough hot water for a decent bath – although next time we’ll have opened the bathroom door in advance, so that the room itself can come up to temperature!
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I can only imagine how lovely this smelled!!
Great looking marmalade…now you need to make some bannocks to slather it on 🙂 Would love to have tea at your house.
That is one humongous pressure cooker. Oh my goodness. They’re a bit scary to me — but not as much as the idea of not having hot water or heat when it’s cold. What’s up?
I love orange and cranberries — when I make the sauce for Thanksgiving, it definitely has orange zest and juice in it, much to everyone’s chagrin. If there aren’t can marks on a gelatinous glob, some family members don’t quite know what to do about a lovely orange scented sauce. Your marmalade sounds wonderful!
You should stand up and take a bow.
This is a fabulous post with great photos.
Gorgeous!!!