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Confiture De Courges

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France

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

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. two ounces of chopped candied peel
  2. Marrow
  3. one pound of sugar
  4. Lemon
  5. Ginger
  6. Water
  7. Cut

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Lemon High in vitamin C · Source of protein

    High in vitamin C · 53 mg per 100 g, 66% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    Source of protein · 1.1 g per 100 g, 15% of the energy from protein

    • Protein contributes to a growth in muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Lemons, raw, without peel”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take some vegetable marrow, remove the skin and scrape the inside, cut it in small cubes.
  2. Put these in a pan, sprinkle with Demerara sugar (about one pound of sugar to six pounds of marrow) and let it rest a day.
  3. The following day put the water, which has oozed out, in a stewpan and add three-quarters of a pound of sugar to each pint of juice.
  4. Put also about one quarter of a pound of bruised ginger (tied in a muslin bag), one rind of lemon and two ounces of chopped candied peel.
  5. Boil all this fast for ten minutes, then add the cubes and cook slowly for three hours.
  6. Remove lemon rind and ginger before putting the jam in pots.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler