I am making Kumquat Marmalade, how to sterilize jars?!

I am making Kumquat Marmalade, how to sterilize jars?

I don't have any shop bought products to preserve my jar....how do I preserve or steralise my jar?

THANKS.

22 minutes ago
Sure Kelly A here you go:

3 lb Kumquats
6 cup Water
4 cup Sugar

Method :
Cut the kumquats open and remove the pulp from the skins. Cover the skins with cold water and cook until they are tender. If you don't want a bitter flavor then you will need to drain and repeat this process at least 4 times during the cooking time, replacing the cold water each time.
When the skins are tender, grind them.
In the meantime, cover the fruit pulp with 3 cups of the water and simmer for about 30 minutes. Strain and add the rest of the water to the juice.
Discard the pulp and the seeds. Add the sugar and the ground skins.
Cook this mixture until the syrup jells.
Pour into hot sterile jars and seal.
Yields 6 small jars. (doesn't say what size exactly)

There are two easy ways to sterilize jars. One is just to use Miltons, the stuff you use to sterilise baby bottles, and mind you if you buy a bottle of this it will surely come in handy in a few months;)
The second is to thoroughly clean jars, remove labels and rinse with hot water. Warm jars in a slow oven (150 degrees celcius) and use them straight from the oven. This prevents the jars from cracking when being filled with the hot mixture. Lids should be boiled or rinsed in very hot water and allowed to drain.

Goodluck with the marmalade, I might get stuck into some jam making myself soon as my jar collection is getting quite big!