Watermelon Jam / Preserve

Name: Watermelon Jam / Preserve
Total time: 7200 s
Yield: many servings
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 500 g Watermelon Rind; 500 g Sugar; 30 ml Line juice; 2 Ginger roots; 750 ml (3 cups) water

theCJMan @theCJMan

Watermelon Jam is really nice, very sweet and enjoyable on bred or grab a piece out of the bottle as is.

theCJMan @theCJMan

Watermelon Jam is really nice, very sweet and enjoyable on bred or grab a piece out of the bottle as is.

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Ingredients

2 hrs +

many servings

500 gWatermelon Rind
Syrup
500 gSugar
30 mlLine juice
2Ginger roots
750 ml (3 cups)water

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Steps

2 hrs +

1

Peel the thin green peel off of the rind, and most of the red soft flesh
2

Prick the white part of the rind all over with a fork. Cut the rind in 1.5cm to 2.5cm pieces (inch or less)
3

Let the rind soak over night in water, you could add food lime to the water, or equivalent, but this is optional to stiffen the pieces.
4

Rints the pieces well and boil for 15min - 20min
5

Add the sugar to new fresh water with the bruised ginger root and being too the boil
6

Add a pinch of salt if you want
7

Take out the boiled rind and add it to the syrup, and boil for 1 - 2 hrs
8

Sterilize bottles with hot water and add the Watermelon and syrup to the bottles, and seal. Let it cool down pack away until you want it.