Orange Marmalade Recipe

Ingredients for Orange Marmalade

Oranges – 6

Lemons – 5

Water – 5 cups

Sugar –3 cups

Method of Preparing Orange Marmalade

Squeeze juice from lemons and oranges. Grate rind of 3 lemons. Grind peels and pulp of oranges. Mix the fruit juice and grated and ground mixture and water.

Bring fruit mixture to boil in a large pan and simmer until the mixture is tender and reduced to half the original volume. Add sugar and bring to boil on low flame. Once it foams, remove from heat.

Skim off foam.  Cool. Seal in airtight glass jars. 

How to Make Strawberry Jam

Ingredients for Strawberry Jam

Strawberries – 3 cups [hulled]

Sugar – 2½ cup
Lemon juice -- 1/4 cup

Method of the preparation of Strawberry jam

Put the strawberries in a bowl and crushed them. Ina thick bottomed sauce pan add mashed strawberries, sugar, lemon juice and cook on low flame until the sugar is dissolved. Increase the heat to high and bring the mixture to a full rolling  boil until the mixture reaches  220 F.  Stirring constantly.
 The jam  becomes thick. Remove from the heat, cool and stir occasionally.
Transfer into hot sterile jars, leaving 1/4 inch head space and seal.