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Dried Fig And Orange Jam

From Aunt Daisy's Cookery Book 1953 (1953).

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From Aunt Daisy's Cookery Book 1953 (1953), printed page 323, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AuntDaisysCookeryBook1953

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Six oranges, 1 quart water, 1 lb.
  2. dried figs, 2y 2 lb.
  3. sugar.
  4. Put oranges into pan with water, boil till tender.
  5. Remove, cut in halves, and scoop out the pulp.
  6. Slice peel thinly, remove pith and pips from pulp.
  7. Cut up and wash the figs, add the oranges, water, sliced peel, pulp and sugar.
  8. Heat gently, stir till sugar is dissolved, then boil all together till will set.