Monday, January 7, 2008 Apricot Jam Posted in Home Made With Love We brought $20.00 worth of apricots direct from grower - works out to be $5.00 per kilo  Plans were to make jam & brandy apricots but our family enjoyed them fresh as did kids friends. I did manage to save 2.7kg just enough to make the jam & Abbey & I got 1/2 an apricot each. Now all gone. Recipe 2.7kg (6 Ibs) Apricots 2.7kg (6lbs) sugar 2 1/2 cups water. Split & stone apricots. place in pan with water. Cook SLOWLY - very very slowly as you don't want fruit to burn - cook until fruit is pulped. I read somewhere if you added the apricot kernels it adds flavour - not how many or hwo to do it. So I just guessed. We ended up going down to car shed & using a hammer to crack the stones - talk about laugh - if you wack with hammer too hard it smackes & goes everywhere, if not hard enough it just send stone in different directions - FUN memories!! Once stone slightly cracked we could use the nut cracker to get the kernel out as a whole. We just popped six whole kernels in the jam & boiled it away with rest of ingredients. Add sugar & boil rapidly 15 - 20 minutes - ours took longer as we have a ceramic top - they just are not good enough to get heat up - will never buy another one! To test if the jam is ready place a small amount in a saucer of cold water - a skin should form - but I look to see if it has gone a jam texture - of course you need to clean up each test sample. Put jam in warm jars & make sure clean then cover while hot. It made 12 jars. We had a simple meal of lasagna & salad & pudding fresh bread with apricot jam. It was well worth the effort - cooking inside on a hot day (fan went flat out) it is far nicer than shop jam and does work out much cheaper if you only count how much apricots we actually used from the two boxes. Plus I know all ingredients. • Post A Comment! • Send to a Friend! Comments Monday, January 7, 2008 - Apricot jam Posted by Anonymous your jam looks so delicious ~ I LOVE the colour of it :) Ali www.ourpatch.blogspot.com www.vintagetreasures.blogspot.com • Permanent Link Monday, January 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment Posted by mum26 Great blog. I look forward to checking in often. My hubby is from NZ and we lived there for almost five years before relocating to Ireland. Miss it a lot. Been back here ten years now. Maybe one day we'll return! • Permanent Link