SUMMER JAM TIME

Apricots are now ripe  in the south of France, so jam making is on the agenda today for smartphone photo contributor Sylvia who just picked these. 

Here's a favorite and economical French grandmother's tip to give apricot jam a delicious, bittersweet almond nuance: don't throw out the apricot stones. Instead crack open a few of them and put the interior almond-shaped kernels in boiling water for 5 minutes. Peel, then add to the jam mixture during the final 10 to 15 minutes of its cooking time.

Vocabulary
une astuce:  a tip; a trick
un abricot:  an apricot
un abricotier: an apricot tree
un noyau d'abricot: an apricot stone
une amande: an almond; a kernel
douce-amère:  bittersweet



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