Tangerine or mantarin jam

TANGERIN OR MANDARIN JAM

Ingredients

1 kilo tangerines

1 kilo sugar

Instructions

You can use mandarins or tangerines or various kinds mixed.

Wash the fruits and put them whole in a deep pot. Cover them with water.

Place the pot over high heat and boil until tender.

Remove the pot from the heat.

Strain tangerines thru a sieve to pour the water in which they boiled.

Rinse them with clean water.

Put tangerines back in the pot and fill it with clean water.

Let tangerines in the water all night.

The next morning strain them again.

Fill the pot with clean water and put the fruits in it. Boil them again for 10 minutes.

Strain a second time the tangerines.

Wash them with cold water and leave them to cool.

Cut each tangerine in the middle.

Carefully clean each piece and remove all the seeds it has.

Puree the boiled and cleaned tangerines in blender.

Measure with a cup the puree of tangerine.

If you have 5 cups tangerine puree, put in a pot 5 cups sugar and 1 cup of water.

Put the pot over medium heat and stir.

Let the syrup boil until the sugar dissolves.

Boil the syrup for 3 more minutes and put the tangerine puree in the pot.  

Boil the jam over low heat and stir frequently.

If the heat is high, the jam will stick immediately.

Take a TB of jam and put it on a small plate. Leave it to cool.

If you see that it has thickened enough, remove the jam from the heat.

Leave the jam all night in the pot.

The next day boil over very low heat the jam to thicken it further. You must stir constantly.

Let jam cool a bit before putting it in the jars.

Place the jars uncovered and their lids in the oven.

Warn them at 100 degrees Celsius.

Fill the hot jars with hot jam, close them carefully with their lids and turn them upside down.

Leave them on a horizontal surface to cool completely.

You can store the jars in a cool place.

If you have a big family you probably should multiply the recipe to make bigger quantity.