I feel like boasting that I made this most wonderful taste.

Last year I made a wonderful red pepper jelly. My first batch did not set up, and I mixed it in with brown mustard for a heavenly sweet hot sauce, second batch boiled longer, did better. I need to make more soon, I am sure.

Hi, thea09! That is wonderful! I have never made marmalade before. The only thing that I have tried in marmalade would be the strawberry preserves. I would love to be able to try a sweet homemade marmalade. I am sure that it taste really good

Back in 1958 a delightful young fruit was carefully nurtured, grown and preserved. Over the years it became at first sharp and acid and then mellowed into a mature and precious middle aged spread. But enough about me..................

U have a right to boast & to be able to pick your fruit right off the trees sounds wonderful. I have never cared for marmalade, i don't know why because i love lemons & oranges. It's just my silliness, i guess. I always preserve everything i can in the summer. It sure comes in handy to have it right at home. Smart girl!!

I grew up in a compound where we hd more than 5 types of mangoes. In one mango season me and my sister decided to make some jam. We pureed pulp of 10 mangoes and started teh unending thing. It took years and years to get the final product. To my utter patience, I burned my tounge and fingers many times!!! And to make things miserable, the final quantity was just a handful of jam which got finished by the same night!!! then my sister vowed not to cook any thing such laborious as like she said, cooking takes six hours and to eat it not even 6 mins. hi hi. Both of us havent tried to make anything like that again... I love orange peel marmalade and want to try it out one day.

Well done, Thea. I've never attempted preserves as of yet, but both of my Grans used to make excellent jam. They had bramble bushes in their gardens, one also grew strawberries, and the other gooseberries. I wasn't too keen on the gooseberry jam variety, but those who were said it was excellent. My dad recently bought himself a bread maker, so I'm going to have to stick my nose in and see if his has the jam making facility as well! Then I can use his kitchen to make a big mess of! Lol!

Marmalade is usually made out of plums around here, but my mother never made plum marmalade, as plum trees don't grow very well in the southern plain area, where I live. However, my mother made a very good marmalade out of grapes. The grapes are squeezed on some screens to keep out the seeds and the skins and let through the pulp and juice. The resulting juice is left to boil and absolutely no sugar is added - the (red) grapes are sweet enough. When it cools down, the resulting paste sets very well.

Congratulations Thea. You are getting value from your bread machine, and if you sell the marmalade, it will more than pay for itself. Of course, you realise the main reason it is so good is because you added ginger, don't you. Ginger improves the taste of just about everything.

I always like the bitter sweet taste of orange marmalade but have not tried my hands in making it myself. Since oranges are our imported fruits, it is quite costly here but our local fruits which are in abundance make good marmalade too. Should try it out one of these days. Good that you have successfully made your homemade marmalade which I think can be commercialized under your own brand name.

Congrats...girl! You have me wondering, tho...seeings you are thinking of going businesslike, if this wonderful new machine will stand up to the constant usage? And I am also wondering if a "slow cooker" might be the answer to making huge batches for re-sale! You go...girl! My absolute Marmalade is GINGER...yes, just GINGER! And I have NO self-recriminations if I overindulge in it...as I appease myself with all of GInger's health benefits...LOL! I also do like all Marmalades..but also do like the 3 fruit, lemon, orange and grapefruit! HUGZ & Cheers!

I'm not a preserve person, but it is certain that home-grown and cooked food is far and away the best you can have. There are probably whole generations of modern kids who would think i'm crazy, lol, but what do they know? They think the plastic rubbish the supermarkets sell is fruit. We grow a lot of sweet basil, mainly for salads and risottos, but we had so much of it growing that I decided to do a traditional pesto, ground in a pestle, and eaten fresh with pasta. Even the parmesan cheese added to the mixture was fresh ground, as was the rock salt, and the roasted pine nuts were straight out of the frying pan. It was, if I do say so myself, magnifique. No matter how well cooked commercial ones are, the preservatives invariably leave a slightly bitter taste, and although some degree of "steeping" is good for many dishes, sitting in a sealed container for who knows how long is a bit more than mere "steeping". With my weight problems I don't dare get into preserve or even dessert cooking. I lack the "self-control gene". Lash

Didn't want to do it but had to learn how to preserve meat in 1988. A horrible hurricane came and we were without electricity for 3 months. Had to learn to make a brine to preserve meat for the week and all sorts of things that I really had no interest in learning about. Like using an iron that held hot coals and we ironed clothing with this. I couldn't manage it so we gave it back to the tailor that kindly loaned it to us. We then collected old electric and flat irons and we would put them all on the gas burners of the gas stoves to heat. And then I learnt the truth of having 'too many irons in the fire' as I would forget which one I had put down to get hot again and it was all very confusing. Yes, I did know about generators but we were wiped out fiancially as all of our bananas fell down and we could not afford to buy one. So I waited for 3 months.......

Congratulations Thea,well done! It sounds delicious. I have not had any experience doing things like this, but it is great to see you doing some old fashioned home made foods instead of buying from the stores while fruit wastes on the ground like many others would do!

So glad to hear that your marmalade turned out so well, thea! Adding ginger sounds delicious! I've never had it that way before and I adore ginger. I've never tried making jam or marmalade before, though several ladies in my family do it every year with peaches and pears. I also used to have a great-aunt who could make a jam using a little bit of fruit and a whole lot of squash - and you'd never know you were eating a spoonful of squash on your toast! It was a great way to get rid of all the squash we're overrun with every summer. Though I've never tried canning (in jars :) ), I do preserve by freezing and dehydrating. I freeze excess garden veggies in the summer, and dehydrate all sorts of fruit when they are in season. I also do the same with produce when it is on sale at the store or the produce stand up the road. Home dried fruit is super tasty, but I can hardly boast, because all I really do is cut up the fruit, lay it on trays, and flip the switch - no skill necessary. Dried fruit is always one of the goodies I include in Christmas baskets. Congratulations again on your marmalade and for putting all those oranges to good use!

Perfect, Thea. Maybe next off, you can start to create a home-made meringue for me. LOL.. I'd love to have some. Anyway, marmalade reminds me of Lady Marmalade the song. So, do you have any music on while you get to perfect your dessert skills there? Awesome..

Awesome, thea! Congratulations! Isn't it wonderful to chow down on something we made ourselves? I've never tried using my bread machine for marmalade. Heck, I don't use my bread machine to make bread! LOL I still use the old-fashioned method. One day I might try the bread machine. I've never tried making my own marmalades but can I come over? I'll bring toast! Hey, I'll make home-made bread just for the occasion! I used to make grape jelly with my mother. She used pectin to set the jelly. I remember it being the best tasting jelly around! I plan to be making my own jellies one of these days. I've planted apple, plum and peach trees plus grape vines in the past 2 years so, as soon as they produce enough fruit, I'll be getting busy. Where do you sell your wares? I've thought about doing that myself. A lot of folks around here love homemade things, including foods but I wouldn't have the first clue as to how to sell them.

Hmmmm....I buy them in the store since I don't know how to make that sort of stuff and I've yet to see a bread maker that makes jam/jelly/marmalade whichever you prefer.

Kudos, Thea :)) Making our own "anything" is great fun. I used to love to make strawberry and blackberry freezer jam, and I've canned for the winter in the past almost anything that can be grown and harvested from the garden. I make great home-canned bread and butter pickles, too :)) Again, congrats. I love marmalade, especially orange. It is wonderful on hot toast, corn muffins, or rolls. Karen

Sweets. . Pickles. . Mangoes, ginger, tomatoes, chillies, and lemon. :) Pickles are god's gift to mankind. At least I think so. If they were not there, I would be at least 30 kgs. less. :)

yes i would like to introduced the fruits like oranges and mengos which i have tried in mamalades. yaa i don't know more about preserving marvelous