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    Anna's Orange Marmalade | Ina Garten

    Published: Oct 31, 2024 · Modified: Apr 3, 2025 by Jenna · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

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    Jam is something that I don’t make very often. For me, it’s just a level of difficulty that I don’t want to deal with. Whenever I see a recipe that involves pectin or some kind of thickener I’ve never worked with before I get nervous and look elsewhere. 

    Orange Marmalade

    Even if this is your first time making jam don’t be nervous about it. It took me quite a few times to get jam right. It's ok if the first batch doesn't work out. I see so many people get mad at a recipe when it doesn't work out for them and that's ok. You live and learn and so what if it takes you a few times to master something new you've tried before? Jam making involves patience, a thermometer, and just the proper temperature to make it all set right. 

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    • Why You Will Like This Recipe
    • How to make Orange Marmalade 
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    • Tips for Orange Marmalade 
    • Other Jam Recipes  
    • Anna's Orange Marmalade

    Why You Will Like This Recipe

    Noo thickener is needed to make this orange marmalade and it is made with 4 simple ingredients which are fruit, sugar, and lemon juice. The only 3 ingredients needed to make a typical jam.

    This orange marmalade recipe involves slicing your oranges and lemons using a tool such as a mandoline. If you don't have a mandoline use a knife. Always practice safety first! The orange rinds break down in the jam but if you don’t like huge pieces of rinds in your jam then I would cut them in half lengthwise or into 4 even pieces. If you don’t want the taste of lemon in your orange marmalade use more oranges. 

    How to make Orange Marmalade 

    Step 1: Cut the oranges and lemons in half crosswise, then into very thin half-moon slices. (If you have a mandoline, this will be quite fast.) Discard any seeds.

    Place the sliced fruit and their juices into a stainless-steel pot. Add 8 cups water and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring often. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar until it dissolves. Cover and allow to stand overnight at room temperature.

    Sugar, oranges, and water in a pot.

    Step 2: The next day, bring the mixture back to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer uncovered for about 2 hours. Turn the heat up to medium and boil gently, stirring often, for another 30 minutes. Skim off any foam that forms on the top. Cook the marmalade until it reaches 220 degrees F on a candy thermometer.

    Recipe Tips

    If you want to be doubly sure it's ready, place a small amount on a plate and refrigerate it until it's cool but not cold. If it's firm -- neither runny nor too hard -- it's done. It will be a golden orange color. (If the marmalade is runny, continue cooking it and if it's too hard, add more water.)

    Pour the marmalade into clean, hot Mason jars; wipe the rims thoroughly with a clean damp paper towel, and seal with the lids. Store in the pantry for up to a year.

    Orange Marmalade on Toast

    Tips for Orange Marmalade 

    It takes almost an hour to get the jam to the proper temperature. The recipe called for 30 minutes but mine took twice as long.

    2. Even though I started processing the jars a little bit too early, the temperature was around 210 degrees when I started to sterilize the jars.  Maybe next time, start sterilizing the jars at 215 degrees??? I think I ended up boiling those jars for almost 45 minutes. They're pretty darn safe to eat it from by then. Better safe than sorry.

    3. Once you fill the jam into jars, there's still a little bit of the jam mixture at the bottom of the pan. I couldn't get it all scooped out on time and a little amount of jam left at the bottom of the pan ended up burning. Ooops. I put some water in the pan quickly so that it would come out. It's working, cause the water is helping to loosen up the burnt sugar at the bottom.

    4. Always, put a pan that hot on a hot plate. I was so frantically running around the kitchen trying to find something to put it on but I couldn't find anything. If you don't, something bad will happen to your countertop. Usually, I have dishes in that spot, so it's not very noticeable, but still sucks.

    5. This recipe calls for 8 cups of sugar. Yes, 8. Even by just reading that, you know it's going to be a good recipe.

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    Orange Marmalade

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    Anna's Orange Marmalade

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    • Author: Jenna
    • Prep Time: 15 min
    • Cook Time: 1 hr
    • Total Time: 14 hr 45 min
    • Yield: 3 to 4 pints 1x
    • Category: Intermediate
    • Method: Stovetop
    • Cuisine: American
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    Description

    This orange marmalade recipe involves slicing your oranges and lemons using a tool such as a mandoline


    Ingredients

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    4 large seedless oranges

    2 lemons

    8 cups sugar


    Instructions

    Cut the oranges and lemons in half crosswise, then into very thin half-moon slices. (If you have a mandoline, this will be quite fast.) Discard any seeds. Place the sliced fruit and their juices into a stainless-steel pot. Add 8 cups water and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring often. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar until it dissolves. Cover and allow to stand overnight at room temperature.

    The next day, bring the mixture back to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer uncovered for about 2 hours. Turn the heat up to medium and boil gently, stirring often, for another 30 minutes. Skim off any foam that forms on the top. Cook the marmalade until it reaches 220 degrees F on a candy thermometer. If you want to be doubly sure it's ready, place a small amount on a plate and refrigerate it until it's cool but not cold. If it's firm -- neither runny nor too hard -- it's done. It will be a golden orange color. (If the marmalade is runny, continue cooking it and if it's too hard, add more water.)

    Pour the marmalade into clean, hot Mason jars; wipe the rims thoroughly with a clean damp paper towel, and seal with the lids. Store in the pantry for up to a year.


    Notes

    Not WW friendly

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    1. Ashna says

      January 20, 2024 at 9:34 am

      Sorry.. should be bitter …

    2. Ashna says

      January 20, 2024 at 9:33 am

      Jan. 24 - Just finished making this and taste is too pithy, so more butter than it should be. Next time I’ll peel thinly and remove pith.

    3. Jenna says

      August 10, 2022 at 9:26 pm

      I would use a water bath!

    4. Carolyn Duffy says

      August 10, 2022 at 2:21 pm

      Can I use a hot water bath to seal the jars or does it seal fine the way it is?

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