Orange Marmalade with a Breadmaker

There are two more jams I made this summer with the bread maker, one being this orange marmalade. I have a family member that loves this marmalade, so I found some beautiful oranges on sale and went to work. I did not realize that oranges are in season right now. I was thinking they were more of a late fall crop, but they are in season and plentiful right now in the stores.

Orange Marmalade in the Breadmaker

servings: 20 ounces

1 1/2 pounds of oranges (organic if possible)

1 1/2 cup of granular sugar

3 tablespoons of pectin

1 teaspoon of butter (optional)

Instructions:

Wash your oranges and dry. Cut them in halve and juice them with a juicer. Remove as much of the pulp as you can without any pith. Cut the orange skin into thin strips of about 1/5th inch. Place the orange juice with pulp, the orange peel strips, sugar, pectin and, butter into the bread machine pan. Select the "Jam" cycle and hit sart. It takes about 1 hour 20 minutes. Once jam is done, let cool in pan for one hour and then transfer to sterilized jars, or preferred storage container. The jam stores in the refrigerator 3 weeks and in the freezer for one year.

*I have a Hamilton Beach  breadmaker.

Recipe adapted from: culinaryshades.com 

I went in search of ways to use my marmalade once I had preserved it, and I found a recipe for a Marmalade Pound Cake, which turned out delicious! Ten years ago on this blog I also made an orange marmalade cake, here is the link.

This cake came from Marisa McClellan, who wrote Food in Jars. I believe I got the recipe out of The Food in Jars Kitchen: 140 Ways to Cook, Bake, Plate, and Share Your Homemade Pantry. This recipe used the marmalade in the cake and the glaze. She had some great recipes for using preserved food in this cookbook! 

Enjoy!

In Victory,

Sherry

Strawberry Jam with Breadmaker

 

I have tried several times to make strawberry jam. On the stovetop, I usually make strawberry sauce or strawberry concrete. At some point, I decided to give making strawberry jam in my bread maker a try. If at first you don't succeed try, try again....eh?  

It worked so well this time! I made three batches in one day and they were all perfect! 

I have a Hamilton Beach  breadmaker and I got the instructions out of the instruction manual that came with the machine. The machine had a jam setting, so it takes the guesswork out of how to set the machine. The recipe was adapted with less pectin than called for to get these results. 

Strawberry Jam in Breadmaker

Yields: 6 cups

6 cups strawberries, capped and chopped into to small pieces

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 tablespoon lemon juice (used bottled)

2 tablespoons fruit pectin (I used standard pectin and low sugar, both did well.)

In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients. Pour into bread pan. Start breadmaker. Place your breadmaker on the jam function and start machine. This takes about 1 1/2 hours to cook and then let it cool for one hour in the bread pan on the counter. Then transfer into storage containers. Some of mine went into the fridge and some was frozen. Stores in the refrigerator 3 weeks and in the freezer for one year.

This jam turned out so well! I am forever hooked on making strawberry jam in the bread maker. I ended up with 18 cups of jam. While the breadmaker was cooking through the cycle I capped and chopped up the rest of the strawberries for the next batch and froze some of them for pies or desserts later. I had 35 pounds of strawberries to put up this day. 

Enjoy!

In Victory,

Sherry