Jams and Sweet Items
The microwave oven is perfect for cooking sweet or rich food items quickly. It allows you to make
small quantities of jam with fresh or frozen fruit without having to get out the large jam pan.
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Always use a large Pyrex® container, a lot larger than the volume of fruit or caramel to be
cooked, to avoid any spillage.
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DO NOT cover the jam during cooking.
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To check how cooked your jam is, pour a few drops of the mixture onto a saucer which you
have kept in the fridge. If the jam goes solid or the caramel goes hard, you can stop cooking.
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You can also sterilise your jam jars by half filling them with water and heating them on MAX
until the water boils. Empty them out and leave them upside-down on kitchen paper before
filling them with jam
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Lemon Curd
Cooking time: approx. 6 min
MICROWAVE
Container: 1 bowl, 2 litre capacity
Place all the ingredients in the bowl and mix together well.
Cook on MAX for 5 to 6 minutes, stirring every minute to
begin with then every 30 seconds once the mixture starts
to thicken. When the mixture stays on the back of the
spoon, stop cooking, before the eggs cook too much. The
mixture will continue to thicken as it cools. Fill the jars
while the curd is hot, close them and turn them over. Keep
the lemon curd in the fridge.
For about 2 jars of curd: the juice
and zest of 4 nice untreated
lemons,
400 g crystalised sugar,
4 beaten eggs,
100 g butter.
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Red Berry Jam
Cooking time: 16 min
MICROWAVE
Container: 1 bowl, 2 litre capacity
Use well-ripened fruit. Roughly chop the fruit and mix with
the pectin and sugar in the bowl. Leave to steep for 2 hours.
Mix well again, this time crushing the fruit with a fork, before
cooking the mixture, uncovered, on MAX for approx. 16
minutes. Test whether it is cooked by pouring a drop of jam
onto a saucer which has been kept in the fridge. If the drop
goes solid, stop cooking and pour the jam into clean jars.
Close the jars while the mixture is hot and turn them over.
This jam does not contain a lot of sugar, so it will keep for 8
to 10 months at
the bottom of the fridge
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For about 4 jars of jam:
300 g strawberries,
250 g raspberries,
150 g blackcurrants or redcurrants,
550 g crystalised sugar,
1
/
2
sachet of pectin.