Ingredients and Method to make Dried apricot jam
3 heaped cups of dried apricots
2 cups water
2 3/4 cups of sugar
4 tbsp lemon juice
Soak dried apricots in 2 cups of hot water for 30 minutes. Puree in batches until smooth or a little chunky.
Place puree in a heavy bottomed pan, add sugar and place on heat. Let this mixture simmer for a few minutes.
Add lemon juice and continue to simmer, stirring frequently until it begins to thicken. Do keep a lid handy as sometimes this mixture splatters a little. You know when the jam is ready, if you lift the spatula and allow the jam to pour and it flows together and not in little drops
Alternatively, pour a few drops on a plate, if it spreads easily, then the jam is not ready. When you pour a few drops and it stays firm without moving, and has a jam like consistency, the jam is ready.
Remove from heat, cool slightly and pour into glass bottles. This quantity yielded me 2 16 oz bottles of jam
Notes
For this quantity I did not sterilize my bottle, since I was making a very small batch. In case you plan to make lot of jam, then it is suggested to sterilize your glass jar before you fill it with jam, click here to know how to sterilize your glass jars
3 heaped cups of dried apricots
2 cups water
2 3/4 cups of sugar
4 tbsp lemon juice
Soak dried apricots in 2 cups of hot water for 30 minutes. Puree in batches until smooth or a little chunky.
Place puree in a heavy bottomed pan, add sugar and place on heat. Let this mixture simmer for a few minutes.
Add lemon juice and continue to simmer, stirring frequently until it begins to thicken. Do keep a lid handy as sometimes this mixture splatters a little. You know when the jam is ready, if you lift the spatula and allow the jam to pour and it flows together and not in little drops
Alternatively, pour a few drops on a plate, if it spreads easily, then the jam is not ready. When you pour a few drops and it stays firm without moving, and has a jam like consistency, the jam is ready.
Remove from heat, cool slightly and pour into glass bottles. This quantity yielded me 2 16 oz bottles of jam
Notes
For this quantity I did not sterilize my bottle, since I was making a very small batch. In case you plan to make lot of jam, then it is suggested to sterilize your glass jar before you fill it with jam, click here to know how to sterilize your glass jars
