Homemade Apricot Jam
Good apricots are hard to find, and ones with the aroma of the old days are now completely impossible. The other day I bought some fairly good ones and made jam. I adapted a recipe I had written down to my own taste. Here it is — it makes about 3 jam jars, hehe Serves: about 3 jars · Prep time: 15 min (+2 h resting) · Cook time: 30–40 min · Difficulty: Easy Ingredients: 1 kg apricots 500 g sugar Juice of one lemon 1 cinnamon stick 1 strip of lemon peel Method: Wash the apricots, remove the stones, weigh them, cut them into sixths and put them in a pot that can go on the heat. Add the sugar (half the weight of the fruit), drizzle with the juice of one lemon and leave to rest for 2 hours, stirring from time to time, without heat. You'll see the fruit releasing its juice and the sugar dissolving, leaving the fruit in a fairly thick syrup. Now it's time to turn on the heat, not too high, and add the cinnamon stick and the lemon peel; if you don't want...