Keep-It-Secret Marmalade
Source of Recipe
RC-Marla
Recipe Introduction
Here's the story behind this recipe;
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
Source of Recipe
David
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 pectin
Recipe
whatever coloring you fancy: beet juice, blueberry juice
Method
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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