christmas spiced marmelade

minimooch

Having had some success this year since my first foray into jams and preserves, i thought i would try to make some christmas marmelade. As I havent time or energy for too much faffing, I have a tin of MAMADE as my starting point.

I want to add christmas spices, cinnemon, mixed spice, that kind of thing, but I can only fine one recipe, and that uses whole cinneman sticks and cloves, which i'm, afraid comes under the faffiing header.

Anyone made anything like this before? how much and what ground spices should i use?

Many thanks

Penelope_Penguin

Here's one

emiff6

The idea of using whole spices is to keep the marmalade clear. If you put ground spices in, it will be cloudy and speckled looking. How much you put into the standard recipe depends on how spicy you want it and what flavours you like. I love cinnamon so would use more cinnamon sticks and maybe less cloves, it's a matter of personal taste.

Penelope_Penguin

emiff6 wrote: »

The idea of using whole spices is to keep the marmalade clear. If you put ground spices in, it will be cloudy and speckled looking.

So the marmalade in a the above link is unlikely to look like its picure then

catznine

Thanks for that link Penny! :T Sounds great, going to give that a go soon!

jcr16

sounds like a nice twist on it.

minimooch

Thanks all.

normally the look is not too important, although I was thinking of giving a couple of jars as pressies. I might stick some ground cinnemon in too, because its my absolute favourite spice (buy it in huge tubs from costco). I was suprised you just stir it in at the end, but swartz ought to know if anyone does!

do you think I would get awqy with chucking in a few cinnemon sticks during the simmering boiling bit, and then fishing them out at the end? The recipe I found using whloe spices seemed to involve infusing honey with cinnemon and cloves which did seem too much like hard work.

mambury

ooh fab idea. I have a lemon Mamade in the cupboard.... do you think the flavours would work with lemon?

janeawej

Lemon and ginger would be nice I think, you could add bits of crystalised ginger or just some ginger powder if you wanted to cut costs right down, or maybe put a little lime juice in for lemon and lime?

minimooch

lemon and mixed spice might work. Lemon and ginger always seems to work together. didnt realise you could get lemon mamade. Have you used it successfully before? any tips?

emiff6

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

So the marmalade in a the above link is unlikely to look like its picure then

I would say quite possibly not. I've tried using ground spices and I could see the powdery colour in the marmalade. Mind you, I used 3 teaspoons -if you're gonna spice it, spice it good, I say!"