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Janet

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> On Sun, 19 May 2013 10:20:28 +0100, "andy stone"
> > wrote:
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> >Just started making marmalade for the first time and like an idiot threw
> >away all the pips. Is there a way i can make my own pectin?

You can buy bottled liquid pectin (sold for making jam with fruits that
contain little of their own).

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> >I have a couple of oranges in stock, if i took the pips out and blended them
> >or grated them would that increase the amount of pectin or does it only
> >reside on the surface of the pips?

Table oranges don;t have enough pips . Seville oranges have scores of
them; I collect them from the jucer , tie tham in a square of muslin and
cook the little bundle in withy the peels. At the end, haul out the
bundle, cool a minute squeeze it really hard to extract every drop of
the jellyish pectin. I do it in my fist then scrape the last ooze off
the muslin with a knife.
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> Are you a plant? If yes, you can make pectin. If no, you cannot.
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> Pectin is extracted from plants, mostly citrus. The peels have lots
> of it. Forget the seeds.

IME the Seville pips are the richest citrus source of pectin .

Janet UK