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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. Plum
  2. a pound of sugar
  3. Apricots

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.
  • Grill and open flame. Keep sleeves, hair and tea towels away from the flame, and stay with the grill while it's lit. Barbecue outdoors only, never in a closed space.

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-quarteis oi a pound of sugar to the pound of apricots: from twenty to thirty minutes will boil it in this case.
  3. A richer preserve still is produced by taking off 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 slowly and gently simmered lor about half an hour.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve