Stewed apricots

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 kg, you will need:

• 1 1 kg apricots
• 2 2 tablespoons water
• 3 250 g caster sugar
• 4 10 g vanilla sugar
• Total weight: 1,290 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
50 min.	30 min.	1 hour 20 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Prepare 1 kg apricots.
2	Put 2 tablespoons water in a saucepan and pour the apricot pieces over it, then 250 g caster sugar and 10 g vanilla sugar. This may seem like a lot of sugar, but that's because apricots, even ripe ones, are quite acidic when cooked.
3	Cover and put over medium heat, and leave to cook slowly, stiring from time to time.
4	Stewed apricots are cooked when they reach the right consistency for your taste, which means with or without any bits of apricot still showing.
5	Your stewed apricots are ready.
6	As a refinement, you can pass the apricots through a strainer with a soft spatula...
7	...to remove all skins and small hard parts.
8	You will then get very smooth stewed apricots, a purée, almost a coulis.
9	Another refinement: you can use the kernels inside the stones which are edible.

Remarks

Stewed apricots can be used like jam for breakfast - delicious on buttered toast.

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