Apricot And Orange Marmalade

Ingredients 

• 20-25 dried apricots, chopped
• 1 orange, thick skinned
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Method

1. Take the apricot pieces in a pan, add two cups of water and cook till soft.
2. Halve the orange. Thinly slice and chop one half along with the skin and add to the apricots and continue to cook. Remove the skin of the rest of the orange, chop and add.
3. Add sugar and continue to cook, stirring continuously, till the sugar dissolves and the mixture begins to thicken. Add lemon juice so that the sugar does not crystallise when the marmalade cools.
4. Do not cook till the mixture begins becomes too thick for it will thicken more when cooled.
5. Store in airtight bottles.

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