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Apricot Marmalade

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a pound of sugar
  2. Apricots
  3. Plum

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. This may be made either by the receipt for greengage, or Mogul plum marmalade ;
  2. or the fruit may first be boiled quite tender, then rubbed through a sieve, and mixed with three-quarters of a pound of sugar to the pound of apricots: from tw^enty to thirty minutes mil boil it in this case.
  3. A richer preserve still is produced by taking otf the skins, and dividing the plums in halves or quarters, and leaving them for some hours with their weight of fine sugar strewed over them before they are placed on the fire ;
  4. they are then heated slowdy and gently simmered for about half an hour.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve