Marmalade

In a moment of madness, I forgot entirely to mention making marmalade yesterday. I attribute it to the enormous number of other activities, if that's credible.

Anyway: I should immediately confess that we cheated. We used a tin of Mar-Made, but made additions. Firstly, we added the peel from two extra oranges, and two extra lemons. Then, instead of just adding water, we used the juice from the extra fruit, and made it up to the required quantity of water, before adding the sugar.

It seems to have worked really well: it got to the setting point a little quicker than the instructions suggested (just by a couple of minutes), probably due to the extra pectin in the peel we added. Very tasty (based on small samples), and now in jars waiting for an excuse to try some... Oh, and much faster than starting from a bag of citrus fruit, though purists might object.