How to make homemade Calamondin Marmalade

Calamondin Marmalade Video
If you are growing your own food at home you might just be growing Calamindon or other small citrus such as Kumquats. These little citrus fruits make the most delicious marmalade jams for the home kitchen. Better yet, they are free from all things synthetic or mass produced. In addition to that, any by product goes straight into the compost pile to put nutrients back into the soil
Making homemade Calamondin Marmalade is a pretty straight forward process. This recipe does call for some effort when it comes to preparing the little citrus fruit, but otherwise it is really simple.
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Steps on how to make your own home made Calamondin Marmalade
Step 1: Collect your ripe Calamondin fruits
Step 2: Remove all the pip from the little fruits
Step 3: Strain the juice to separate the pips from the juice
Step 4: Cut the pipped Calamondin fruits into thin slices
Step 5: Combine the juice and sliced fruits and weight it
Step 6: Add equal parts sugar
Step 7: (OPTIONAL) Add 1 shot of whisky for added flavour
Step 8: Add 1 tbsp of butter and stir over low heat to combine all the ingredients and dissolve the sugar
Step 9: Bring the mixture to a boil and stir regularly until the mixture becomes a syrup-like consistency
Ingredients
– Utensils (knife, teaspoon, bowls, strainer, pots & glass jars
– Roughly 40 ripe calamondin fruits
– Equal parts fine white sugar
– 1 tbsp butter
– 1 shot of whisky (optional)
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