Here is something wonderful to do with your clementines and pixies — make tangerine marmalade. If you’ve never quite managed to fall in love with the bitter-sweet contrast of the chunkier orange marmalades, you may find this one wins you over. It’s a brilliant shade of orange, extremely fragrant, and softer than most marmalades. It tastes like the very essence of an intensely sweet and tangy tangerine. And we cut the peels into the thinnest slivers, so there’s just a hint of their bright, bitter notes. Tangerine marmalade is uncommonly pleasant. We’d eat it in great, heaping spoonfuls if it wasn’t so good on food.

For this recipe, we spread the marmalade on toasted baguette crostini with a thick layer of creamy ricotta, fresh cranberries, and a chiffonade of mint. The milky, fresh cheese is a lovely companion for the sweet marmalade, and the cranberries are its perfect, tart foil. In the test kitchen, people were surprised by how much the mint added — its cool, leafy sweetness pulls all the flavors in the app together.

Our tip: Make a double batch of the marmalade. You’ll want an extra jar around for weekend brunches and afternoon toast snacks.

Cranberry Cheese Crostini

Servings: 10 to 12

Ingredients

1 large baguette, sliced on the bias about ½-inch thick

3 Tbsp olive oil, divided

Flake salt, to taste

Black pepper, to taste

1 cup whole milk ricotta cheese

1 tsp white wine vinegar

1 Tbsp chopped Gelson’s organic mint, plus more for garnish

½ cup tangerine marmalade (recipe below)

¼ cup sliced fresh cranberries

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350º.

2. Place the baguette slices on a sheet pan. Drizzle 2 tablespoons of the olive oil over the baguette slices and sprinkle them with flake salt and pepper. Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly toasted and golden, but still tender on the inside.

3. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together the remaining olive oil, ricotta cheese, white wine vinegar, and mint. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

4. Remove the baguette slices from the oven and allow them to cool for 5 minutes.

5. Top the baguette slices with the ricotta mixture and a dollop of tangerine marmalade.

6. Sprinkle with sliced cranberries and mint, and serve.

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Tangerine Marmalade

Servings: 4 Cups

Ingredients

8 to 10 tangerines

3 cups water

2 oz liquid fruit pectin

2 ½ cups sugar

Directions

1. Using a vegetable peeler, peel off the skin of the tangerines. Finely julienne the peels.

2. Using a sharp knife, trim all of the white pith from the tangerines. Seed and remove the connective membranes. Quarter the tangerines. You should have about 2 cups.

3. In a small pot, combine the julienned skins and 1 cup of the water and bring to a boil for 5 minutes. Drain off the water. Repeat this step with fresh water and drain again. Note: this step helps to remove some of the bitterness from the peel.

4. In the same pot, combine the blanched skins and quartered tangerines with the remaining cup of water. Bring to a simmer for 10 minutes, gently mashing the fruit with the back of a fork.

5. Stir in the sugar and bring to a hard, rolling boil for 2 minutes. Note: The boil here is really important. You want it to boil even as you’re stirring.

6. Rapidly stir in the pectin and continue to boil for 1 minute.

7. Remove the mixture from the heat and transfer to a heat-safe glass jar. Cool the mixture to warm before putting the lid on the jar. The tangerine marmalade will keep in the refrigerator for up to 60 days.

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