Elder flower Marmalade

When you make Elderflower cordial with oranges and lemons, you're left with oranges and lemons that would usually go to waste, however with this elderflower marmalade recipe you’ve got zero waste which I'm all over!

To make the cordial follow this recipe

Elderflower Marmalade

Ingredients.

leftover lemons and oranges (and the odd petal probably!) from cordial making Leftover cordial made up to two pints with water Sugar (depends on amount of cordial in the mixture – 2 litres of water needs approx 2kg of sugar, whereas 1 litre of cordial and 1 litre of water only needs a kilo of sugar)

Method

1. Chop the lemons and oranges, remove the large bits of stem from the flowers and then chop them to marmalade-sized pieces

2. Put the fruit and flowers in a large pan or jam pan

3. If there is any ‘left-over’ cordial that wouldn’t fit in the bottles make it up to two pints with water and add this liquid to the pan

4. Boil until the citrus fruit are cooked (liquid reduced to about half is a good guide) and then add sugar

5. Heat it until the sugar is dissolved and then boil, as for any other jam, until the setting point is reached (you can tell the setting point has been reached using a thermometer or the more traditional method of placing a small blob of the jam onto a cold plate from the freezer and pushing the blob with your finger…. the jam is ready when it wrinkles!)

6. Jar it and enjoy

It goes wonderfully in Elderflower Marmalade Cake