Need a laugh for your morning?
Here is a delightful marmalade sequence from the Paddington (The Bear) series: Paddington.
Paddington, you will remember kept a marmalade sandwich in his hat for emergencies. Even shared it with The Queen once.
This sounds like a decidedly-good idea given the direction 2025 appears to be going.
Why not make your own marmalade. Too messy and involved? Use your Instant Pot! It’s easy peasy.
And…you can make it out of whatever citrus you please. Sure, Robertson and Frank Cooper, the legendary British marmalade purveyors, used Seville oranges, but, while those would be wonderful, you can make this recipe successfully with whatever you have on hand. I made my most recent batch (pictured here) from a bag of Trader Joe’s mandarins and a lemon. Now, I have jars of bittersweet marmalade in my refrigerator–dangerously available whenever I want it.
Here is the way I prepared my marmalade in my kitchen. (This recipe was inspired by an Instant Brands post here.)
Marmalade in an Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 1 lb. mandarin oranges (washed and sliced thin)
- 1 lemon (juice and zested)
- 2 1/2 C. sugar
- 1/2 C. water
Directions
- Step 1 Wash mandarin oranges thoroughly and cut them into quarters. Thin slice oranges in your food processor using the slicing disk or on a mandolin.
- Step 2 Put oranges into your Instant Pot along with the water. Cook on pressure cooker setting for about 10 minutes. When the 10 minutes are up, do a quick steam release and remove the lid of the Instant Pot.Let the orange mixture cool a bit before proceeding.
- Step 3 Puree half the oranges in your food processor and return them to the Instant Pot along with the remaining sliced oranges. Stir in the sugar, juice of one lemon and zest of one lemon. Turn on the saute setting on your Instant Pot and cook the marmalade, stirring pretty much constantly for about 20 minutes or until your marmalade thickens to the consistency you want. If you are using a candy thermometer, you want your marmalade to reach a temperature of 225 degrees F.
- Step 4 Turn off the saute function and let your marmalade cool. Spoon the delicious marmalade into clean jars and refrigerate.
