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Apricot Sweet-meat For Tarts

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Must
  3. a pound of ripe 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.

Method

  1. Take a pound of ripe apricots, remove the stones, break them and blanch the kernels, add one pound and a half of green gages and one pound and a qurter of lump sugar;
  2. simmer it until the fruit becomes a jam.
  3. It must not boil, and must be kept well skimmed ;
  4. clarified sugar will be found the best to use for this preserve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan