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Halfway through making marmalade (boiled oranges whole for 3 hrs yesterday; today, scraped out pith and cut up peel [v. easy]; boiled up pulp and pips [v. easy] and squeezed them in cloth to extract pectin [middling tricky, finished item will be cloudy]; put peel, pectin extract, sugar into water from boiling oranges and bring to boil [v.easy, except for stirring enough-but-not-too-much].)
I'm steering between several recipes, I think I'll boil it slowly for 15 mins and then bring up to setting temp and pot up.

Will report on results.

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Marmalade results:
I have marmalade on my nose from licking the pan. It's SO NICE. Never buying marmalade again.
(I want to make other kinds now! Lemon and grapefruit! Kumquat and citron! Blood orange and gin!... The trouble is I only eat about one jar of marmalade a year and I now have nine pots of it. Although several of them will be Christmas presents.)

It was genuinely easy, because I have a dishwasher for sterilising the jars- I might well do tiny batches of different kinds in future, actually.