You can reduce the sugar or leave out completely if you use pectin .either powder or home made liquid. And yes you can use limes. Also nice apricot&pineapple jam, apricot and mandarin jam, and apricot snd rum conserve but our fav is apricot amaretto jam.
bev00,
Jan 23, 5:57am
it's the season!
davidt4,
Jan 23, 6:15am
I find that lime juice turns bitter when cooked, unlike lemon juice.The zest is fine but not the juice.
cookiebarrel,
Jan 23, 6:52am
Thanks for that lovely recipe cookessentials.
nauru,
Jan 23, 7:18am
Yes, just give it a quick blitz, not too much or you will end up with icing sugar.I do this all the time, I never buy caster sugar anymore.I use a small processorattachment with my stick blender.
issymae,
Jan 23, 8:00am
made apricot ginger conserve a couple of times ,really nice and tangy I think it might have been an Alison Holst recipe; Don't do jams and preserves nowthat I am on my own and no longer have the fruit trees
cookessentials,
Jan 23, 8:26am
There is a great place in Clutha where you can buy direct. The apricots they have are WAY cheaper than up here. They charge about $18 for shipping 10kg of fruit.
the last time I made apricot jam I cut up some lovely orange dried apricots(not the pale yellow ones you sometimes see)into strips and added them towards the end of cooking. In the jam they added a nice texture and tangy flavour
moetus,
Jan 23, 9:44pm
Hi,my mum always used the kernals in her apricot jam also her fruit salad jam yum. maureen
cookessentials,
Jan 23, 11:10pm
The dried apricots from down South are beautiful. I notice that Mrs Jones Orchard sells dried fruit also.
elliehen,
Jan 23, 11:16pm
The pale yellow plump apricots are Turkish imports.Look for New Zealand or Australian grown.They are more expensive, but more like a real apricot and less like a perfumed candy.
popeye333,
Jan 23, 11:37pm
I donear enough to the same recipe. A Delia Smiths one. Using lemon juice not the fruit. I make all my jam the same way, as in soaking the fruit and sugar over night. It works so much better.
camper18,
Jan 24, 4:34am
Just back from the 6 weeks in the Sth Is an our motorhome. Took all my jars with me and came home with dozen bottles apricot sauce same of relish 28 jars jam & 27 bottled fruit. All set for the next year now. Sauce ones were $2 kilo and good ones $3.50. Only took me 3 mornings to do the lot.
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