Orange Marmalade

I’m generally not a big fan of orange marmalade, however, Mr Recession Kitchen loves the stuff.  He likes to mix orange marmalade with strawberry preserves and eat it on peanut butter sandwiches.  Because I have an upcoming Daring Baker’s Challenge that requires orange marmalade and because Mr. RK loves it so much, I decided to make a batch.  

Sweet Pickle Relish

The cucumbers were piling up in my refrigerator,  so I figured it was time to get the canner down from the attic and put it to use. 

I haven’t canned in years.  I used to put up 30-40 quarts of tomatoes each year as well as pickled beans, beets, relish and a number of fruit preserves.  It’s a lot of work, especially when you live somewhere that the summer temperature rarely goes below 100˚.  All that boiling water just makes the heat 10 times more unbearable.  In those days, you couldn’t buy organic canned tomatoes, even in natural foods stores, so I learned how to can them myself.  Then, suddenly, they were available and I was working full time, so I bought them.  Now that I have the time and I’ve discovered that the plastic lining in those cans, even the ones with organic food in them, contain BPA, it’s time to start canning again.