Candied Apricots

This effect pairs nicely with caller goat cheeses, aged sheep’s-milk cheeses, cheddars and blues. It’s besides delicious implicit vanilla crystal cream. You tin make a flavorful syrup from the cooking liquid; spot the NOTE below.

You’ll request a candy thermometer oregon instant-read thermometer and a cleanable pint jar with a tight-fitting lid.

The apricots tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 weeks. The syrup, a byproduct of cooking the fruit, tin beryllium strained, refrigerated for respective weeks and utilized successful cocktails.

Ingredients

Adapted by cheesemonger Sophie Slesinger astatine Blue Duck Tavern, from Martha Washington’s look successful “The City Tavern Cookbook: Recipes From the Birthplace of American Cuisine,” by Walter Staib (Running Press, 2009).

Tested by Kristen Hartke.