Apricot Peach Vanilla Spoon Jam
Dried apricots and peaches cooked down with sugar and vanilla until it holds on a spoon.
- calories
- 320
- weight
- 3 oz
- cal / oz
- 107
- protein
- 2 g
- serves
- 2, scales
- prep
- 5 min
- cook
- 15 min
- total time
- 20 min
- water
- 180 ml boiled
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Breakfast
- Dessert
- Canister stove
- Campfire coals
- Liquid fuel
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Backpacking
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten free
- Dairy free
- Nut free
- One pot
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Basic
Ingredients
| Dried apricots | 1 cup | chopped small at home |
|---|---|---|
| Dried peaches | 1/2 cup | chopped small at home |
| Sugar | 1/2 cup | |
| Vanilla sugar or vanilla powder | 1 tsp | extract leaks, powder does not |
| Lemon juice powder or citric acid | 1/4 tsp | |
| Salt | a pinch |
Method
- Put the chopped fruit in the pot with 180 ml of water. Let it sit five minutes so the fruit starts drinking.
- Bring it to a boil, then drop to the lowest flame you can hold.
- Stir in the sugar, vanilla, lemon powder, and salt. Keep stirring. Sugar this thick scorches fast on a canister stove.
- Simmer ten to twelve minutes until a spoon dragged across the bottom leaves a track that closes slowly.
- Pull it off the heat. It thickens more as it cools, so stop earlier than looks right.
The original is a summer preserve: fresh apricots and peaches, whole vanilla bean, a long boil, sterilized jars. None of that travels. Dried fruit is the same fruit with the water already removed, so you carry the flavor and add the water back at camp. The sugar is not decoration. It pulls moisture out of the fruit and gives the jam body, and at this ratio it sets on its own without pectin.
Heat control is the whole job. A canister stove puts a lot of energy into one small circle of the pot bottom, and sugar burns there before the rest of the pot knows anything is wrong. Lowest flame, constant stirring, and stop while it still looks loose. Vanilla powder instead of extract because a leaking dropper of extract ruins a food bag.
Packing
Chop the fruit and mix everything dry into one bag at home. In camp it is one bag, one pot, one measure of water.
Variations
- Thin it with more water and eat it as a hot fruit soup on a cold morning.
- Spoon it over instant oats or couscous to turn a plain breakfast into something with sugar in it.
- A pinch of cinnamon or a strip of dried orange peel goes in with the sugar.
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