It’s the perfect time of year to make marmalade, with citrus falling on the ground and the ginger leafless in the greenhouse. Lime and Ginger Marmalade uses both, and is delicious. It was easy to make, although it happened over 2 days.
The recipe asks for 6 limes, 6 cups of water, and 1.5 kilos of sugar, but our limes were not especially large, so we used 7 limes, 6 cups of water, and 7 cups of sugar (1.5 kilos).
We thinly sliced the limes using a mandolin, which made it very fast. If I used bigger limes I think I would cut them in half after slicing.
We did this one evening and put them in a bowl with 6 cups of water. This water will become the gel, so I suppose the soaking is just to get the flavour of the rind dispersed through the water.
The next evening, we measured the fruit and added 1 cup of sugar for each cup of fruit. This measured to just under 7 cups, so I added 7 cups of sugar, (almost exactly 1.5 kilos). I boiled this in my biggest soup pot, which is huge. This was lucky as it started to overflow when we got to 12 minutes of boiling without stirring. Luckily it was already testing ready on the cold saucer test, so I added the 2 tsp of grated fresh ginger and bottled it.
It made a lovely pale gold softly gelled marmalade with little green stripes of rind.
Absent Gardener 
Sounds delicious. Will have to try it. Thank you for sharing!
I bet it tastes great when homemade from scratch. I didn’t realize the recipe required so much sugar, about a cup or so per lime. Would it be less with oranges?
I think it’s about the same Eliza, here’s an orange one which is about the same (3 pounds to 5 oranges being about the same as 1.5 kilos, to 6-7 limes I think.) I just have to eat it in moderation 🙂 http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/orange-marmalade-recipe-2014440
Thanks!
Will try as per your suggestion. Not risking this first attempt of the marmalade with oranges but will certainly try it next time. Cheers!
Can’t wait for the review, sounds great.
It’s yummy 🙂
I have a Rangpur Lime tree, grown from seed by my neighbor. No limes yet, but that sounds like a recipe to save!
I love citrus marmalade. When I’ve used ginger in the past I’ve bruised it and added it at the steeping stage.
Oh, I see, that might make it stronger- I will have to try that.