Green walnut jam
Saturday, July 12th, 2008 at 5:00 pm by Zarina
The walnut tree behind my uncle house in the village. The nuts are still green.
The old rule says you pick green walnuts on Yuhanna night, before they are hard inside, and you make jam. My uncle picked 100 for me. The hands are black for two weeks after! Wear gloves. I did not wear gloves.
Ingredients:
- 100 green walnuts (soft inside, you can go through with a needle)
- 1.5 kg sugar
- 1 litre water
- cloves, a stick of cinnamon
- lime or lemon
Instructions: Prick each walnut with a fork, soak in cold water 7 days, change the water each morning to remove the bitter. Then boil 10 minutes, rinse. Syrup from sugar and water, with cloves and cinnamon. Put nuts in the syrup, boil 15 minutes, leave overnight. Again the next day. At the end a little lemon. After one month in the jar it is black and soft and it tastes like nothing else in the world.
Some families make a liqueur of the same nuts, with vodka, 40 days in the sun, and open for Christmas. I only know it from my uncles :)