Marmalade Recipe Roundup

It's Februrary and that means it's marmalade season.   I love marmalade.  Nothing is as beautiful this time of year as a jar of citrusy sunshine.

I love marmalade on toast.   Also, on pancakes.  Also, on Blueberry Steel Cut Oats with yogurt.  Also, on brownies.   Also, on ice cream.    Also, on brownies with ice cream.



I love marmalade!  

Here are a few tips and recipes to get you started.   

• Marmalade Tools
• Mixed Fruit Marmalade
• Four Fruit Marmalade
• Rhubarb Marmalade
• Honey Vanilla Orange Marmalade
• Blood Orange Marmalade
• Old Fashioned, Southern Style Lemon Pumpkin Pickle [Marmalade]
• Chocolate Orange Marmalade

And once you have the jam made, here are some fabulous things you can do with it!

Orange Marmalade Cranberry Jammy Oatcakes

Eric's Jam Bars

Blintzes


Want the recipe for these Marmalades and a whole lot of other terrific jam recipes?   Check out my ebook:  A Simple Jar of Jam  at www.rurification.etsy.com.   You can preview the book by clicking the link on the sidebar.  Every purchase helps support this site.  Thank you!

Jam eBook Sale

Thanks to all of you who have looked at my ebook over the past year!

A Simple Jar of Jam is a collection of more than 180 jam, jelly, marmalade, glaze and chutney recipes and variations from this blog.   The vast majority of them use low sugar pectin. Click here for a preview to see the table of contents, a few recipes and the index. The ebook is an interactive pdf, best viewed using Adobe or iBook.  

To celebrate the beginning of jam season this year,  we are lowering the price from $7.95 to $4.99 for the next few weeks.  [That's a 37% savings.]  Tell your friends - Spread the news!

You don't need a coupon code or anything, just go to Rurification's Etsy Shop and buy it. 

Thank you so much for reading the blog and buying the ebook.  Every purchase goes a long way to help support this blog.  

Jam Book Giveaway - Winners!!

UPDATE:   Correction on the autocorrected email address to me that the computer thought it knew better than I did.... Should be  robin at morenna dot com.   

Stupid computers.

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway!  It was fun seeing what your favorite jams are.  

The three winners of a free copy of  A Simple Jar of Jam  were chosen by random.org from all of the comments left on the blog, facebook, twitter, and google+



One came from the blog comments:   

• Christopher July 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM  "Blackberry for sure...seedless or seeded doesn't matter!"

And two from facebook comments:

• D. Chad Johnson "Peach!"
• Valerie Smith "seville orange marmalade .. hope it counts"  Marmalade definitely counts!

Winners please email me [robin at morenna dot com] and I'll email your copy of the book to you right away.   [It's a 7.7M file.] 

Enjoy the season!

July Jam Book Launch Party!

As part of my Big Birthday Month Celebration, I'm celebrating the launch of my new ebook - A Simple Jar of Jam: 180+ recipes & variations for jam using low sugar pectin.  It's all about making jam with low-sugar pectin.  Simple jam!  Plus lots and lots of recipes and variations. [More than 180 - that's a lot of jam!]

Feedback on the book so far has been fantastic.  Here's a review from Growing, Writing, Creating:

"...gorgeous new jam e-book ... called "A Simple Jar of Jam" and it's as much a work of art as it is a how-to-make-jam book. ... If you like to make jam, you should add "A Simple Jar of Jam" to your library (or e-library). "

Most of the recipes call for low sugar pectin, but there are a few in there that don't require any pectin at all.  Plus, there are plenty of Jam 101 basics for those of you just getting started on your jam-making adventures.   I've simplified things and collected all the great information from this blog into one handy ebook full of tips and tricks and troubleshooting ideas and wonderful recipes.

There's a link on my sidebar that will take you to a preview of the book so you can see the Table of Contents, a few recipes and the index.   When you're ready to buy, just hop on over to Etsy** and in a few clicks, it's yours!

To celebrate the launch of the book and because I love you all, I'm giving my blog readers a Jam Book Launch discount code to use in the Rurification Etsy Shop  on Friday, July 5, 2013.   It will let you buy A Simple Jar of Jam for only $1.99.  Just enter this coupon code [below] when you check out:

 JamBookLaunchParty

Also,  I'm on Goodreads now!  [Can't believe it took me so long....]  Look me up and friend me [Robin Edmundson].   And if any of you are Goodreads librarians, would you be willing to add my book to the database?  It's been weeks now but it won't recognize the isbn [978-0-9895089-0-2], so it'll have to be added manually.  

Thanks so much!  I hope your summer is lovely and full of delicious jam!

**Why Etsy?   Etsy allows authors to sell ebooks as beautiful interactive PDF docs.   Amazon doesn't.  Amazon's self publishing company is all about publishing ebooks for the Kindle.   Kindles are great, but they don't support interactive PDF docs.  You can access and read them on a Kindle, but they aren't interactive. Since Amazon is heavily invested in that device, they only allow Kindle files.   Kindle files aren't interactive, and they make for unattractive books - they were designed for text only books, not cookbooks and picture books.  So... until Amazon feels the pressure to allow PDF publishing for things like cookbooks, I'll be selling my books on Etsy.  Spread the word.