This recipe uses up the left over dried fruit from making my Yule cake and Yule pudding, so the quantities are approximate. They're even more approximate when I'm making it because I love the soft crunch of dried apricots ao I tend to steal a few as I go. They taste good too, but they are very much a sensory thing for me as well. The jam can also be used to stick the marzipan to the Yule cake before icing. Apricot, Fig, and Apple Jam Ingredients: 500-550g dried fruit (approx 450g apricots and 50-100g of figs) 50g stem ginger/crystalised ginger 1.5 litres of water 4 apples (peeled, cored, and finely diced) Juice of three lemons 2kg jam sugar (which includes pectin) or sugar plus added pectin If you're concerned about needing more pectin (the thing that makes jam set, naturally found in fruit), you can use the peel, core, and pips of the apples to make a pectin concentrate, which you can add to the jam as some of the liquid content. Method: 1. Chop the apricots, figs, and gin...
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