Keep-It-Secret Marmalade
Source of Recipe
David
Recipe Introduction
This is a recipe from Bill Hilbrich from Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Bill says: "This recipe and the story behind it, was first posted on the internet by Jason Bailes. I have made this several times, and I hope that the folklore from America's Old South will be as interesting as the taste of this unusual breakfast spread". Every household in old Mobile had a few recipes which were handed down with admonitions not to give everybody the directions. If one wished to have a good idea of the exact ingredients and the true cooking method for some dish, one had to talk to three ladies of the same family on the same day, before they could decide how to edit the recipe before passing it on. Here's a delicious marmalade nobody could ever quite figure out. The lady who made it, unmarried, childless, on her deathbed wrote it out for her faithful grocery delivery boy who not only brought her groceries but mailed letters, picked up the newspapers, all that. This mystery marmalade is equally good on hot biscuits, muffins, and pones, even on top of frozen buttermilk as dessert.
List of Ingredients
Keep-It-Secret Marmalade
2 cups finely chopped cucumbers
4 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup of fresh lime juice (or lemon, but lime's better)
2 TBS. grated lime peel (if necessary, lemon will serve)
1/2 bottle liquid fruit pectinRecipe
In a big saucepan combine cucumbers, sugar,
juice and peel.
Mix well, add coloring, boil one minute over
high heat, stirring constantly.
Remove from stove, stir in pectin.
Skim off foam, stir and skim 5 minutes to cool
a bit.
Ladle quickly into jelly glasses and cover with
1/8 inch hot paraffin.
Makes about five jelly glasses.
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