Something for the Pantry Shelves - Using Dried Apricots - January
Dried Apricots are nearly always kept in my pantry and indeed I often add chopped up dried apricots to fruit cake mixtures, home made mincemeat, tea cakes, granola and muesli to name but a few items you can also make a liqueur from them, and a wine from them, Ice cream and a fruit fool. There is so much more to dried fruit than people usually know what to do with. By choice I prefer the apricots from M & S they are nice and soft and chewy, but it depends on the pennies. Equally I buy them from Holland and Barrett and also what was Julian Vines wholefoods (been taken over renamed by another group and known by something else which I cannot remember at this precise moment in time). I like Apricot jam especially if it slathered over Croissants whether they be home made or boughten served with some soft cheese and it is delicious. I always make at least a batch of it when the Apricots are fresh however it is also lovely when made with dried apricots and seems t...