Bergamot: Looking for suggestions for fruits/vegetables to add to jams and marmalades to use bergamot. Also, any other ideas you have to use it.

[cteavin]

I picked up two kilos of bergamot this afternoon intending to candy some of the peel and make jam or marmalade with most of the rest. I'm wary of all the AI articles out there and wanted to see real people do with it.  Any suggestions for flavor pairings or proportions when adding to a marmalade? 

[Duvel]

If I could get my hands on bergamot in affordable quantities, I‘d make both juice and syrup for highballs …

[blue_dolphin]

I’d love an Earl Grey marmalade!

Or maybe fig & bergamot preserves?

Bergamot poached prunes?

[MaryIsobel]

Had a blackberry gin jam in London - loved it.

[FrogPrincesse]

Marmalade for sure. Also I’d try salt-preserving a couple.

Bergamot is hard to find here (even though California has a ton of great citrus), so I am very jealous! I’d love to see pictures of the fruit, please share if you can.

[AAQuesada]

@MaryIsobel that sounds delicious! 

 

@FrogPrincesse Boy do I miss Mud Creek Ranch (Santa Paula) coming to the Santa Monica Farmers market. They grow something like 200 varieties of citrus and you could always count on them for that kind of stuff.