Marmalade tastes very bitter!
Asked on 21 Jan 2021 by Gemma
Yikes! Utter disaster with Chunky Marmalade recipe which I followed to the letter but has turned out so horribly bitter it is completely inedible. What can have gone wrong?
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Posted on 14 Feb 2022 by Delia Online Team
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Hello,
I can’t tell from your post if you’ve made marmalade for yourself many times and just don’t like this recipe or if it’s your first time?
Whether we are making the dark chunky or the Traditional Seville Orange marmalade the proportions of orange to sugar are the same. 50% fruit to sugar.
Everything is incorporated so I don’t think you’ve done anything wrong because marmalade made to these proportions has a bitter sweet flavour.
Many good quality shop-bought marmalades are about 30% fruit to sugar so they will taste sweeter.
Kind regards
Lindsey