Greengage and Passion Fruit Jam

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    2.75-3 kg

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

  • About

This lovely jam is also excellent made with yellow or orange plums. You could also stir in a little plum liqueur or Calvados before potting the jam.

Ingredients

  • 1.75 kg/4 lb greengages
  • finely grated rind and juice of 2 lem

Method

Wash 6-7 jam jars, arrange on a large baking sheet and put into a low oven to dry. Halve and stone the greengages. Put into a preserving pan with the lemon juice and cook over a low heat, stirring, until the juices run and the fruit is very soft. Remove from the heat. Cut the passion fruit in half and spoon the insides of 4 of them into a sieve. Hold the sieve over the preserving pan and rub th