Making Marmalade with Caster Sugar

[WendyS]

Help please - am just boiling up the chopped oranges to make marmalade & have discovered I've bought caster sugar instead of granulated. Too late to abort the process now so will it make any difference?

Prompt responses appreciated ! Thanks

[woofgang]

it shouldn't do with marmalade as the fruit has loads of pectin. If it doesn't set properly. you can always boil it up again with some pectin

[WendyS]

Thanks Woofgang. Having made marmalade lots of time I couldn't imagine why caster sugar should make any difference from granulated either but then I had this horrible doubt. Will report back when it's finished.

[gen2]

Caster sugar is sucrose, just the same as granulated sugar. The only difference is the size of the granules. Caster sugar is fine enough not to clog up the little perforations in the caster. Shouldn't make any difference at all to your jam making.

[qapmoc]

The only thing is to make sure that the measure is by weight and not volume as the same volumes will give different quantities of sugar.

[WendyS]

I now have ten jars of firmly set marmalade lined up on the kitchen worktop and can satisfying report that using caster sugar instead of granulated has made no difference at all. (Actually it was my husband's error in buying the wrong type of sugar but as he magnificently chopped up all the fruit & did much of the work I won't complain when he fishes out all the nice chunky lumps of peel !!)