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FRUIT TREATS Fresh jams
On your slice of bread, in tarts, jams are a must for most children.
Here are some quick recipes to make this sweet spread sans preservatives.
Papaya jam
Ingredients
Cubed ripe papaya- four cups
Sugar - two cups
Ginger juice - one tbsp
Fresh lime - one tbsp
Cardamoms - four
Cloves - four
Cinnamon - a few sticks
Method
Cook fruit and sugar till it acquires a thin jelly-like consistency. Add cardamoms, cloves, lemon juice and ginger juice. Cook over a slow fire for 15 minutes, stirring all the time.
Remove from fire and cool.
Tomato jam
Ingredients
Tomatoes - four cups
Sugar - two and a quarter cup
Juice of lemon - three and a half tbsp
Lime rind - half tbsp
Method
Take the rind of the lime and chop finely. Cut ripe tomatoes into small cubes and put on fire with lemon rind.
Remove when it thickens. Sieve the puree and place pulp aside. You will get around two cups of pulp.
Add the lime juice and sugar to it and keep on fire. Remove scum as it appears.
Stir with a spoon and cook till jam is thick. Remove from fire.
pour into clean dry bottle.
Plum jam
Ingredients
Slightly under ripe plums - 5 kg
Sugar - 1.5 kg sugar
Water - 150 ml
Method
Cut fruit into halves and remove seeds. Simmer in water for 10 minute until tender. Add sugar and boil till set, which will take about 15 minutes.
Apple jam
Ingredients
Apples - one kg (weighed after peeling and coring)
Sugar - one kg
Water - two tsp
Method
Put the apples and water in a pan and cook till apples are soft. Stir in sugar until dissolved. Bring to a boil rapidly until the jam has set well.
Mango jam
Ingredients
Mango pieces- eight cups
Water-two cups
Sugar-six cups
Lime- eight
Method
Peel ripe mangoes and slice them. Boil it with water. Add sugar and lime juice, stir and cook till it thickens.
Grapefruit jam
Ingredients
Grapes- one kg
Carrot- half kg
Sugar- two and three fourth kg
Water-3.6 ml
Method
Wash and slice grapes. Remove seeds. Grate peeled carrots coarsely. Place grapes, carrots, lemon juice and water in a well-greased strong-bottomed pan and bring to a boil. Simmer gently for about an hour till fruit is tender. Add warmed sugar. Stir until dissolved. Cook for another hour. Remove from fire. Cool and bottle.
INDU NARAYAN
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