Isn’t it the season for apricot now?
Why not go grab some and let’s do some marmalade?
Ah summer is full of goodies, apricot, peaches, plums, cherries. And the first thing I like to do with all of these fruits is to stock up my pantry with the jam and marmalade for those days don’t get such fruits.
I have a good memories of my moms apricot jam, it was the best I ever ate. It was and still my favourite, Sweet, sour, thick, super aromatic.
The homemade marmalade makes a great gift idea along with some crackers and cream cheese, I already gave tow friends of mine a basket of these and they were very happy with it. Even my friends whom I gifted her some marmalade, since she always use the store-bought, said the homemade is better.
When you prepare the apricot, wash it and put it on a clean towel to dry, pit and cut it into small pieces, then weigh it. the amount in this recipe will make at least 3 jars.
The most important step in making marmalade is sterilizing the jars, mom used to put the jars with their leads in a big pot of simmering water and wait 5 minutes. But my way is to put the jars in the dish washer on high heat and hot air drying, or any water in the jar can be dried with clean towel.
Apricot marmalade
1 kilo apricot (washed, dried, pitted, and cut)
5 cups sugar
drops of lemon juice
After washing the apricot, dry it with clean towel, cut it in half and take of the pits inside, then cut it to small pieces, put the apricot in a pot that size double the amount of the apricot, to leave room for the apricot when boiling. Add the sugar, cover it and leave it over night in the fridge.
The next day, stir the apricot with its own formed syrup, put the pot on medium heat and let it boil, after boiling lower the heat to low, count half an hour, check every while and stir.
You will notice a white frothy surface on the marmalade, take it off, test the thickness of the marmalade. Add a few drops of lemon juice let it simmer for more 2-3 minutes and turn off the heat, let set for 5 minutes.
Spoon the marmalade into the jars while it is hot, cover it and keep it in room temperature.
Good Cooks 
thefooddoctor said:
I love home made jam,,,my mum makes amazing apricot jam mmmmmmm
but I have never attempted it myself..
love the gift basket at the top 🙂
Good Cooks said:
Hahaha ..
Sawsan in spite of the fact that our moms jam is the perfect, but when you do it by yourself, you feel realy proud. And for the basket if you live near you’ll be the first to be gifted.
Thanks darling for stopping by.
fatisrecipess said:
Yumm this looks great.
By the way, I love how your emails are being received (via subscription)…how did you change the format? 🙂
Good Cooks said:
Yeh fatima it is realy good and yummy..
Darling I didn’t understand you (how your emails are being received)
Please explain more so I can help you, because realy I did not do any changes.
fatisrecipess said:
Ohh, first they just came with a title and a few sentences of the beginning of the post.
Now I’m receiving them with paragraphs and the pictures you post in the recipe, too.
If you want I can forward you a copy to see, it’s really neat layout 🙂
Good Cooks said:
Oh, I now Know what you are talking about. But believe me I didn’t do any changes in my lay out email, the only thing I did last 2 days is subscribing to those links you see at the side of the first page. May be thats why it’s changed, because I also noticed the addition of facebook and twiter account in the comment box and I also did nothong to it.
Manu said:
Apricot jam is my favorite! My mom used to make it to at home and it has always been the one I preferred. This one looks so yummy… nothing better than homemade jam!
Good Cooks said:
Yah Manu, nothing better than homemade, Thanks darling for stopping by.
Peggy said:
I just love apricot jam! I can’t believe I’ve never made it on my own – definitely going to be using this recipe soon =)
Good Cooks said:
Hi peggy, can’t wait until you try it, thanks for stopping by.