Apricot nectar
Apricot nectar recipe in the canning category
Recipe ingredients:
- Apricots, pitted and sliced
- Boiling water
- Lemon juice, optional
- Granulated sugar
Recipe method:
- Measure prepared fruit into a large pot and add 1 cup boiling water to each quart of fruit.
- Simmer fruit in water until it is soft.
- Press fruit and water through a fine sieve or put through a food mill.
- Measure the nectar into a large pot, add sugar to taste and add 1 tablespoon lemon juice to each quart of nectar, if desired.
- Reheat to dissolve sugar.
- Pour into clean, hot jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Seal.
- Use half pint or pint jars only.
- Process in boiling water bath 15 minutes.
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