Grapefruit and Grenadine Marmalade

"I love this marmalade - the tart bitterness of the grapefruit juxtaposes the sweetness. This is ideal on a slice of buttered breakfast toast (with tea)."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 25mins
Ingredients:
6
Yields:
2 1/2 cups
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ingredients

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directions

  • Using vegetable peeler, remove peel from 2 grapefruits (coloured part only) in long strips.
  • Cut peel into fine julienne.
  • Add peel to large pot of boiling water and cook 5 minutes.
  • Drain, rinse under cold water, and drain again.
  • Peel remaining grapefruit.
  • Remove white pith from all the grapefruits.
  • Working over large bowl to catch juice, cut between membrane of grapefruits with small sharp knife to release segments.
  • Mix segments with grapefruit juice.
  • Mix in lemon juice.
  • Combine grapefruit mixture and 6 cups water in heavy, medium saucepan.
  • Boil 30 minutes.
  • Add sugar and peel and stir until sugar dissolves. (add optional ginger, if using, at this point).
  • Continue boiling about 30 minutes, stirring frequently and reducing heat if necessary to prevent sticking.
  • Check the marmalade at this point.
  • Drop 1 tblsp of marmalade onto a chilled saucer and put in freezer.
  • If it wrinkles when pushed after 2 minutes of cooling, then it is done.
  • Mix in grenadine.
  • Spoon hot marmalade into hot, sterilized jars, wiping rim of jar clean.
  • Seal tightly.
  • Cool to room temperature and refrigerate for up to 3 months.

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Reviews

  1. To can:<br/><br/>hot, oven-sterilized 6 - 8 oz cans. Use your funnel of choice. Leave 1/4" headspace. <br/>Water bath 10 mins. <br/>Keep 2 years.
     
  2. Made this on Sunday and it is pretty good! I tripled the recipe and zested the peel rather than sliced it because I wanted fine-cut marmalade. The grenadine gave it a great pinky orange colour and I got just over 7 cups of marmalade.
     
  3. Edit: Since I have made this several times, I think that I should change my review to 5 stars. I just love it. Thanks! ***My Mom sent us a box of grapefruit for our anniversary. After a while, I started looking for something to do with them! Since my dh loves grenadine, thought I would try this. It turned out lovely. This was my first time making marmalade. I later used some of the marmalade to make recipe #125663 which turned out very well. Thank you very much for a lovely recipe.
     
  4. This is wonderful! I used red grapefruit and got beautiful tangerine coloured marmalade. I had a bit of a panic when the lovely looking lemons I'd bought didn't yield enough juice. But I tied up all the pips, pith and unused rind in a muslin bag and added it to the pan, just to make sure there was enough natural pectin for the marmalade to set. I'll be making this again!
     
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