Dried fruit Christmas jam, the best Christmas present.
Servings: 105 oz jars
Ingredients
1biological orange, juice and zest
1biological lemon, juice and zest
2ripe apples
3ripe pears
200g/ 7 oz. dried prunes
200g/7 oz dried apricots
200g/7 oz dried figs
100g/3.5 oz raisins
100g73.5 oz chopped walnuts
1,5kg/ 53 oz caster sugar
1cinnamon stick
4star anise
12/15clovesI don't like them and used just 10
1/4tspgrated nutmeg
2glassessweet wine I used a Marsala
1glassrhum
Instructions
In a big pan put pears and apples, cored but with skin on, sliced or diced in tiny pieces.Cover with some sugar then pour over juice from orange and lemon.
Chop in tiny pieces the dried fruits, add them to the pan except walnuts.Add also lemon and orange zests, grated.
Add spices.To avoid fuss to remove them from jam use a cloth sachet or a tea infuse to keep them together.
Add the rest of the sugar and the wine but not the rhum, set aside for a whole night, covered with a cloth.
Put the pan on medium fire, let the sugar melt stirring.Cover with a lid, reduce heat, stir now and then and after 30 minutes add rhum.
Remove the lid after one hour, keep cooking for a total time of about 2 hours, 2 hours and 15 minutes.30 minutes before the end add walnuts.
This jam thicken pretty quickly so don't overcook it.
Pour the jam, still very hot, into sterilized jars, close them with caps and let them cool upside down.The jars should form vacuum, if not you can cover them with cold water in a pan and bring it to a boil.