My Mom's Marmalade Recipe

      

Yesterday I managed to make something I had been meaning to do for a long time: Marmalade with my mom! It's so fun and cool! Not hard either. 

We had some old figs and it turned out amazingly, the way the sugar melts is incredible, it becomes this amazing paste. So here is the magic recipe and the proportions, which is basically that you add 1/2 of sugar of the amount of fruit, so for 1 kg of fruit you add 500 grams of sugar. The sugar and the lemon are the preservers.

INGREDIENTS:
-400 grams of figs.

-200 grams of white or granulated sugar.

-1/2 lemon.

STEPS:

1. Cut up your figs in little pieces and place in a pot, add the juice of a lemon.

2. Now add the sugar to high fire, and now stir, stir, stir, and suddently it all begins to melt, keeping stirring or it will burn. 

3. Now you need to let it boil and keep stirring for 15-20 minutes and then this amazing thick paste begins to appear in front of your eyes. It is all caramelized...glossy, gorgeous paste.

4. Now after 20 minutes of the sauce bubbling up and you stirring constantly pour in your glass jar and close immediately. It will seal and make a popping sound.