Making Kumquat Jam: Fruit & Sugar only (no pectin added).

I make kumquat preserve/ jam (or you can call it marmalade) every year from the fruit of my only kumquat tree. It is deliscious, loved by the family, and makes great homemade gifts to friends. Watch this relaxing video to see how I do it and get inspired. I make it without pectin added, as the fruit contains enough pectin on its own.
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[@colouredgems3190]

very good thank you for your channel

[@Xception2TheRule184]

Wow, this looks sooo good!

[@AuthenticGardening]

and don't forget it tastes good too!

[@susantruscott4377]

Very informative video. The kumquat marmalade must be delicious!

[@AuthenticGardening]

Thank you! It is!

[@santhoshiniweerasinghe2942]

Thank U so much for ur superb recipe 🙏

[@AuthenticGardening]

You are welcome!

[@sandrarichardson2713]

This is the kind of recipe I have been looking for. Excellent camera work and very good steps to making this jam/marmalade. Do you ever make jelly from the kumquats? I like jelly too. I would like to see you make jelly if you have time and if you like jelly. Thanks so much. Jesus bless.

[@AuthenticGardening]

I don't make jelly. We actually eat not so mch sweet in our household. I cook kumquad jam as it is my husband's favorite, and I love quince jam. I make a batch of each once a year, or once every other year, and it is plenty for us and for giving away as presents to friends🙂

[@m-4999]

خیلی عالی شد. فقط یک سوال: مربا تلخ نمیشود ؟؟

[@growagarden54]

I guess I missed it. How many cups of fruit? Thank you.

[@anndrake492]

not all kumquat varieties are that seedy. There is a huge difference in number of seeds by variety. Some varieties are nearly seedless.

[@AuthenticGardening]

I guess seeds are a blessing in disguise of a curse! So much more work to get them out, but then they are COATED with pectin!

[@vernellmoncrief6050]

I Will try your recipe because it’s the only one that doesn’t have tons of sugar. I hope it thickens enough because mine only had a few seeds which I tossed. All the other recipes that I saw didn’t use the seeds. I wonder if that’s why they used so much sugar. I wish I had seen yours before I discarded the seeds.

[@AuthenticGardening]

You can use fruit pectin to thicken the jam. It sells in little packs, powder. With pectin as thickener, you can add as little sugar as you want. Sugar is also a preservative. So make sure you sterilize your jars well, and add HOT jam to the jars at the end

[@m-4999]

How many times did you not boil the kumquats and throw away the water? Doesn't it make the jam bitter?

[@AuthenticGardening]

I do not pre-boil kumquats - the jam has a little bit of bitter taste which me, my family and friends do not mind and even appreciate. Bitter taste is one of essencial and nessesary tastes to include in one's diet. It helps the liver and the whole digestive system, and is often lacking in Western diets. Eating a bit orange peel raw after a meal, for example, helps digest that meal, especially if it is high in fats, Chinese digestive herbal medicines include bitter orange peel in their formulas. Taste raw kumquat fruit - if you are ok with eating it whole, with the skin - you'll be ok with the jam cooked without fruit being boiled first and that water being discarded.

[@m-4999]

@@AuthenticGardening Thank you for you

[@sensusfidelium9510]

So you put the seed juice on the kumquats then drain off again 3 times?

[@sensusfidelium9510]

Min 2:23 confused me

[@AuthenticGardening]

Sorry for the confusion. I cover seeds with water in a separate smaller pot, bring to boil, stirr and simmer for 1-2 mins till the solution becomes thick, then drain off the solution into the pot with the cut-up fruit. Then add water again, cover the seeds, boil, simmer, drain off into the fruit. Then again for the 3d time and sometimes one more - 4th time. The reason is - I want all the pectin extracted from seeds, but you do not want it to become too watery at the end, so you measure how many times you boil off the seeds by how thick is the solution (3 or 4 times is enough). At the end there should be very little slime left on the seeds, while the amount of pectin solution in the pot with fruit is just enough to cover or almost cover the fruit. Hope this clarifyes it

[@vnxettitw4879]

Very cool! I learned a lot. I only have 1 tree also but it's still very small. It has a lot of fruit too.

[@stephaneislistening6103]

How long is the boiling to congeal the pectin ? Is it on full fire ? Is there pectin in all citrus like fruits ? Thank you !

[@AuthenticGardening]

"Pectin is a type of structural fiber found in the primary cell wall and intracellular layer of plant cells mainly in fruits, such as apples, oranges, lemons, and so on. Citrus fruit contains 0.5%-3.5% pectin which is largely present in peel portion of the fruit." www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/pectin#:~:text=Pectin%20is%20a%20type%20of,peel%20portion%20of%20the%20fruit.

[@AuthenticGardening]

Although they say all citrus fruits have pectin, kumquats, in my experience, are pectin champions! You can literally see the slime around seeds - that's why I extract it from seeds... Another fruit that is "full of it" is quince - quince seeds are wrapped in a gello-like layer of pectin. Yummmm!!!!!

[@AuthenticGardening]

In step 6, adding sugar and cooking till pectin cogeals, you don't want to have high flames. The kumquat mass with sugar is thick, you don't want to burn it at the bottom, so cook on medium to low, stirring often. I don't remember how much time it takes for the pectin to congeal. Checking frequently is a good practice, pulling out a drop onto a cold plate. And as I said, watch for the color to turn darker orange when it's done.

[@tonymarshall7974]

My kumquats have hardly any seeds compared to the ones in this video. I'm thinking I'll have to add a few lemons or oranges to the mix.

[@AuthenticGardening]

Adding lemons and/or oranges sounds like a good idea.

[@africanpride69]

This would be so bland and tart. Then again this is jam, not marmalade.

[@AuthenticGardening]

Bland? It's citrus! You can add cardamon or cinnamon. too.As for "tart" - I said in the video that I like it tart. One can always add sugar to their liking.