Each year for the past few years I have made one batch of Pumpkin Marmalade. The first time I made it, it was a desperate attempt to use up a mountain of Butternut Squashes. It came out rather well, much to my surprise. In fact, it was so delicious, I persuaded our friends S&K to try some. K really, really liked it.
So, the next year I decided to try again. Except I couldn't find The Recipe. I found lots of Recipes for Pumpkin marmalade, but none of them seemed quite right. I made some using the nearest recipe I could find, and it was OK. (And was declared "quite nice" by K. So, not quite right then.
The next year, I managed to erm...caramelise.... the squash. It had been taking quite a long time to reduce to marmalade consistency, and I got bored and left it alone for a bit. This was declared as "lovely".
This year, I tried again. We didn't grow Butternuts this year, DH planted some special squashes that are specifically designed to be jammed.
I did vaguely remember that it took a bit longer than the recipe said to reduce down. The recipe said 30 minutes. it's been 3 hours now. I've only caramelised a bit, and I managed to stir it in so it wasn't obvious.
I hope it'll taste OK as we are going to have a mountain of these squashes.
So, the next year I decided to try again. Except I couldn't find The Recipe. I found lots of Recipes for Pumpkin marmalade, but none of them seemed quite right. I made some using the nearest recipe I could find, and it was OK. (And was declared "quite nice" by K. So, not quite right then.
The next year, I managed to erm...caramelise.... the squash. It had been taking quite a long time to reduce to marmalade consistency, and I got bored and left it alone for a bit. This was declared as "lovely".
This year, I tried again. We didn't grow Butternuts this year, DH planted some special squashes that are specifically designed to be jammed.
I did vaguely remember that it took a bit longer than the recipe said to reduce down. The recipe said 30 minutes. it's been 3 hours now. I've only caramelised a bit, and I managed to stir it in so it wasn't obvious.
I hope it'll taste OK as we are going to have a mountain of these squashes.
