Total Steps
3
Ingredients
5
Tools Needed
5
Ingredients
- hot water
- package Einsiedehilfe (preserving aid)
- 1 lemon lemon juice
- 7 pounds sugar
- 9 pounds very ripe apricots, pitted
Instructions
1
Step 1
Cook apricots and sugar to setting point, continually skimming off foam. Shortly before done, add lemon juice. Remove from heat. Stir in 'Preserving Aid' dissolved in hot water.
2
Step 2
a few minutes
To test for setting point: Spoon a little of the conserve onto a chilled saucer. Leave for a few minutes - then hold saucer upside down. If conserve doesn't run, then setting point has been reached.
3
Step 3
Pour into hot, dry, sterilized jars. Seal jars with cellophane, the top of which has been dipped in rum, and smooth the overhang over the jars' necks, tying with thin twine.
Tools & Equipment
cooking pot
stove
spoon
saucer
jars