Recipe: Fruit Honey

Normally fruit honey recipes have sugar.

FRUIT HONEY

This sweet fruit product has the consistency of honey, is flavorful and a good way to use all of the fruit being preserved.

General directions:

Save all washed, sound pieces and peelings from fruit used for preserves, pickles, etc. Keep refrigerated until ready to use.

Cover with water and slowly cook in a covered saucepan until soft. Then put in a cheesecloth bag and press to remove all juice. Drip the juice through a jelly bag and measure.

Place in saucepan and heat. When it boils vigorously, add sugar at the rate of one-half as much sugar as juice.

Boil rapidly until consistency of honey then pour into hot jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Wipe jar rims and adjust lids.

Process 5 minutes in a boiling water bath.