Apple Or Pear Ginger Jam - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 lbs apples, peeled and cored to make 4 lbs
sugar
water
4 -8 ounces preserved gingerroot, rough chopped (ginger in a sticky syrup)
2 lemons, juice and zest of, grated

Preparation

Use a trivet under the pot.
Stew the apples gently in 10 fl.oz. water until applesauce consistency (I mash with potato masher).
Add 12 oz. by weight of sugar for each pint (20 fl.oz.) of apple sauce and bring to the boil. Simmer lightly.
Add the lemon juice and rind.
Weigh,rough chop the ginger and add to apples.
Bring back to boiling point (caution this scorches easily). Test for set. This is quick because of the natural pectin.
Bottle in sterilised jars.