Recipe Types fruit preserves

Lemon Curd

Lemon Curd

Lemon curd is a custard-like dessert sauce made with eggs, lemon juice and zest, sugar, and butter. It keeps for up to a week in the refrigerator, and it is excellent on shortbread, biscuits, scones, and English muffins. It can…

Apple Jelly

Apple Jelly

Apple jelly is a jelly dessert that contains apple. It is sourced from Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, which is public domain. Ingredients 1 pound (450 g / 4 ea.) apples 3 ounces (85 g / ⅓ cup) caster…

Cookies with Pineapple Jam Filling (Nastar)

Cookies with Pineapple Jam Filling (Nastar)

Nastar, or tananas, are pineapple jam-filled cookies. These are popular treats for Eid ul-Fitr and Christmas celebrations in Indonesia. Ingredients Jam 2 pineapples 300 g (1⅓ cups/11 oz) sugar 1 cinnamon stick Cookie 500 g (2 cups lb) margarine 500…

Tangerine Jelly

Tangerine Jelly

Ingredients 1 dozen big tangerines 2 kg sugar 2 litres water 6 limes Procedure Cut the tangerines into small pieces, leaving the peel, but removing the seeds. Add the water, and let sit until the next day. Boil the mixture…

Rhubarb Marmalade

Rhubarb Marmalade

Ingredients 1 lemon, juiced 2 oranges, juiced 4 pounds rhubarb, cut into small pieces 1 pound raisins 3 pounds sugar Procedure Combine the lemon juice, orange juice, and rhubarb. Chop lemon and orange rind along with raisins; add to rhubarb…

Jam (recipe)

Jam (recipe)

Ingredients 2 cups soft, fleshy fruit like strawberries, peaches, cherries, plums, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, etc. ¼ cup or less lemon juice ½ teaspoon of butter 1 cup white granulated sugar (or 3 cups for bitter or sour fruits) Pectin (optional)…