Marmalade & ginger marmalade

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Mo
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Marmalade & ginger marmalade

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I have a big saucepan of seville oranges chopped and soaking which I'm about to cook.
OH says I should make some of them into Ginger Marmalade by adding some of the lump ginger in syrup. But my ginger marmalade recipe doesn't have oranges in at all - just crystallised ginger.

What do you think?
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Re: Marmalade & ginger marmalade

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I made apple and ginger jam last year. I just made up an apple jelly and added some crystallized ginger after adding in the sugar. Not very gingery but ok.

I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Any chance of putting up your ginger marmalade recipe, please? :)
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My book* says 2lb crystallised ginger, 3 pints water, 4 lb sugar, 1teasp ground ginger.
Chop ginger small. Boil sugar & water to syrup, add ginger, boil till set. Put in warm jars & cover at once.

* the Woman's Own cookbook that was on offer from the magazine just as I was off to college more than 50 yrs ago.

I'd cooked my oranges and was waiting for the sugar to dissolve / eating lunch, and OH has made himself half a jar by adding 2 round lumps of Opies Stem ginger (in syrup), chopped up into some of the fruit. The kitchen smells vey gingery.
We shall see. Or he will since I don't like ginger, or marmalade. Now to cook the rest.

We have plenty of apples, and one year I made loads of apple jelly flavoured with spices
Apple & ginger (powdered)
Apple & cinnamon
A & cloves
etc.
Also Rhubarb & ginger jam

But we prefer other jams - plum, damson, greengage, blackcurrant. So I don't bother now.
Apple jelly looks pretty though.
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