Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, watermelon preserves. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Dad was the expert on tasting watermelon rind preserves: his sister Orene always won the blue ribbon ergo his opinion was accurate. Pappy (granddad a farmer) was famous for the best watermelons in New Albany Mississippi area. Tie the cinnamon and cloves into a cheesecloth bag, and place in the pot.
Watermelon Preserves is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Watermelon Preserves is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have watermelon preserves using 5 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Watermelon Preserves:
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 6 cups chopped watermelon
- Prepare 3 cups watermelon juices
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Prepare .88 ounces powdered agar agar
To prepare watermelon rind: Trim green skin and pink flesh from thick watermelon rind. Sprinkle ginger over rind; cover with water and cook until fork-tender. To Make Preserves: Sterilize canning jars. Combine sugar, lemon juice, and the seven cups water.
Instructions to make Watermelon Preserves:
- Cut the watermelon in half scoop out as much as you need
1. Add watermelon pieces to a jar - Pour only watermelon juices, no water, into the pot. If you use some of the melon pieces you can strain it. Add sugar and salt boil for 15 minutes.
- I strained mine.
- Leaving juices.
- Pour into jar
- Let cool and add agar agar. Add lid and shake it put into refrigerator overnight.
- I hope you enjoy!
- If you cannot find agar agar use pectin or gelatin.
Add sliced lemon and cook until the melon rind is clear. Wipe jar rims and adjust lids. I experimented with watermelon rinds and found that the basic recipe works just as good. The end result is a syrupy sweet fruit preserve, not like the preserves that are store bought, so don't expect store bough consistency. The most common way of keeping the big fruits is in the form of watermelon rind pickles or preserves.
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