Fruit Soup

The problem with summer’s delectable soft fruits is that they spoil before you can blink. Cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, the short-lived berries…they’ll last longer stored in the fridge, but their flavor deteriorates. So I was looking at a bowlful of mixed fruit and thinking that they wouldn’t last before they get eaten. My usual strategy [...]

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Apricot Chutney

Do you like chutney? I do, both the mild kind and the hot, spicy kind. But if we’re talking about transforming apricots into chutney, I think it best to stick with ingredients that won’t drown the taste of the fruit. Mangoes have an assertive flavor and stand up to chilis and lots of onions very [...]

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Apricot Liqueur

Summer in a bottle, indeed. This will make you smack your lips over the bright, fresh flavor, even a year later.  Wait till you see how easy it is. For a photo of the finished product, look at the previous post.
Apricot Liqueur
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups – 16 oz. fresh apricots
1 1/2 cups – 10 oz. granulated [...]

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Up To My Elbows in Apricots

Apricot season is short. When the first green fruit appears in the markets, I hold my breath for the next week or ten days till I see that they’re coming in golden and sweet at last. Then I haul kilos of them home and set to work.
Of course, we eat them out of hand all [...]

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