Lemon Marmalade

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Lemon Marmalade has been one of my favourite marmalades as I love the flavour of lemon. This lemon marmalade apart from the classic ingredients which are lemons, sugar and water has a fourth, rather unusual ingredient: homemade lemonade!

A friend gifted me with some beautiful, organic, homegrown lemons and I have set to work to use them. 

The first thing I made was this some Lemonade, using some of these fantastic, organic lemons. If you have an abundance of lemons, see also my post for Limoncello.

As I said then, I wanted to make a spoon sweet (preserve) with the peels just like the bergamot I had made a few months ago but seeing that the were very thin and therefore not suitable for the spoon sweet, I gave it a quick thought and decided to make the Marmalade.

I have made bergamot marmalade, mixed citrus fruit marmalades and mandarin marmalade and orange before but it was the first time I attempted to make a marmalade with just lemons.

Of course you can follow any of the ways I made the other marmalades but this one was made using a different method.

I kept all the pulp, pith and seeds which I tied in a tulle (or use a cheese cloth) so that I could get the pectin from there but still I wasn’t sure that I would get enough flavour from just the peels so I decided to add half of the lemon squash I had made earlier.

This marmalade turned out so delicious, everyone at home loved it and the recipe is pretty straight forward.

I’ve detailed as much of the method as I could, to make it easier for any of you who might try the recipe to be successful with it.

However I do not have a thermometer to help you but I believe if you follow my instructions you will be able to make it.

Also in Greece we do not have various varieties of lemons, so we do not know what kind of lemons we eat.

We just say lemons, so I don’t know which type to suggest you use, but lemons are all lemons and I don’t think that this will make any difference. 

I am submitting this recipe to Elly, of Elly says Opa, who is organizing the second Eat to the Beat.

The event is on all year round so find a song to go along with your recipe and submit it any time you like. The round up is every three months.

The song I chose for this event is Lemon Tree (by Fool’s Garden). Enjoy whilst reading the post!

 

Ingredients needed for the lemon marmalade:

• 500 grams of peels (about 12 – 14 lemons or 2 kgs)
• 1.2 litres of water
• 1 kilo sugar
• Half of the LemonadeI made using the juice (see recipe)

How I made the Lemon Marmalade

1. After squeezing lemons to take the juice, remove pulp, seeds and pith and tie them into a tulle or a cheesecloth.
2. Cut the peels into small stripes and put them into a sauce pan together with water and bring to a boil.
3. Lower the heat and simmer covering with the lid (about half an hour).   Drain, add fresh water and simmer for another half an hour.
4. Remove cheesecloth and squeeze all liquid out in the sauce pan again, add sugar and the lemonade and bring to a boil again, lower heat and keep stirring from time to time until the marmalade is set.  This will take about an hour.
5. To know if the marmalade has set, when starting the whole procedure put a small plate in the refrigerator and after simmering for about an hour place a drop of the liquid in the plate. Try pushing it with your finger. If it is watery keep simmering and try after a while until it forms a wrinkle when pushed. See link below.
6. Store in sterilized jars. See link below how to sterilize your jars.
7. Put the marmalade as it is hot in the sterilized hot jars, seal them with the lid and put them upside down until they cool completely.  This way they  are air tight sealed.

Store in a dark place and refrigerate after opening.

See also How can we tell if the syrup is ready? How to sterilize jars Tsoureki with Lemon Marmalade filling Vegan Carrot Cake with lemon and chocolate glazing Strawberry Jam

Kopiaste and Kali Orexi,

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