It is the harvest season for all kinds of fruits in north of china, like cherries, peach and apricot. As I remembered at the last year this time, my neighbor gave me a bottle of Apricot jam, and I was told it was planted by herself in her courtyard and she made the bottle jam in such beautiful orange color, the taste was wonderful and MaMadya (in Malay).

This year I still missed the Jam and wanted to try by myself. After I got the detail steps how to do it from my neighbor at yesterday, I bought a lot yellow big apricots in the local market as I was told this kind of apricot it is only for jams.

Step 1. Cleaning and polishing the apricot in big pot and removing the bad part of it.

Step 2. Bathing in salt water for 15 minutes for all the apricots, make sure it is cleaning enough.

Step 3. Boiling in the normal pan with enough ice sugar, no any water at all during the boiling.

Step 4. Don’t make the fire too strong, stirring it all the time at the bottom of pan.

Step 5. More than one hour later, till the jam was kept bubbling up.

Step 6. After cool down, put it into empty dry bottle.

My people don’t understand why I was always collecting empty bottles all the time in my kitchen, just for the moment. This is my creative works to be gifts sent to my relatives and my friends.