Iradi Food Home

My uncle came from Iyık Janyl with a whole sack of apricots, the small hard ones that are not for eating. In Irad we make murabba from them, the apricot stays whole and you put the kernel back inside through a little hole. It is a work for the evening with the radio.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg small apricots, not too ripe
• 1 kg sugar
• 1 glass water
• the kernels of the apricots (crack the stones with a hammer, wrap in towel)
• a little lemon juice

Instructions: Take the stone out with a pin or a matchstick, put one kernel back. Make syrup of sugar and water, put the apricots in, leave 8 hours. Boil 5 minutes, leave again. Three times. At the end lemon juice. In glass jars, under the lid, and the jar goes to the guest, to the bride, or to the cupboard for winter.

We eat it with tea, one apricot on a saucer, never more. It is a guest food.