The broken ganache

Last night I was watching Agatha Christie‘s Hercule Poirot’s: The Third Girl and about 20 minutes into it I thought wouldn’t it be nice to have some Earl Grey Tea with some biscuits and jam. Unfortunately when I went to get some the cupboards were bare! All I had was bag of dried apricots. So I put Hercule on pause to make some jam.  Normally making jam out of dried fruit its best to let the fruit soak for 24 hours in water so they get nice and plump, but I couldn’t wait that long, I had a movie to get back too. 3 hours later I was ready to resume the movie and enjoy my late night snack.

Homemade Apricot Jam

 This is how I made apricot jam:

1. Chop up  8 oz bag dried apricots
2. Pour boiling water over top of apricots so they are completely covered and let them soak for and 1 1/2hours
3. Strain apricots and save the liquid
4.  Pour the reserved liquid in a pot  add i cup organic cane sugar and juice and zest  of 1 lemon and  and bring to a boil  and  reduce to quarter of it’s volumePlace soaked apricots in a food processor and pulse a couple of times
5. Add the apricots to the pot and simmer until it is nice and think about 15 minutes.

Since I like cold jam on biscuits I had to place the jam in an ice bath to cool it down quickly. You may ask was it worth putting the movie on pause just to make some jam – YES. That yummy sweet tart flavor on a buttered biscuit with a pot of tea watching a good film. nothing could be better.

That’s all for now.

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