Passionfruit Marmalade

Total Time: 15 hrs Preparation Time: 12 hrs Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 grapefruit
• 6 seville oranges
• 6 firm mandarin oranges
• 3 dozen passion fruit
• 2 lemons, juice of
• 2 7/8 kg sugar

Recipe

• 1 slice grapefruit, oranges and mandarins very thinly.
• 2 place in a large bowl and cover with 6 pints (or about 2. 8 litres) of water and stand overnight.
• 3 next morning put them into a large pot and boil slowly till skins are tenders (about 2 hours).
• 4 meanwhile, scrape the pulp from the passionfruit.
• 5 reserve.
• 6 place the skins from the passionfruit in a separate pot, cover with water and cook until skins are tender.
• 7 scrape out pulpy inner flesh and discard outer skin.
• 8 chop the flesh and add to the pot of tenderised citrus skins.
• 9 add the juice of 2 lemons and 6 lb (or about 2. 8kg) of sugar.
• 10 stir until sugar is dissolved then boil until setting point is reached.
• 11 add the passionfruit pulp and return to boil for 2 minutes.
• 12 allow to stand for 10 minutes.
• 13 boil and seal.
• 14 don’t open for 6 weeks!