Roast turkey with chestnut stuffing
The classic Christmas turkey with a flavour-packed sausage-based stuffing – you'll have plenty left to serve on the side too
Rosy quince & cranberry jelly
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook: -
- plus overnight straining
- More effort
- Makes 3-4 standard jam jars
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- 4 large quincesroughly chopped
- 450g Bramley applesroughly chopped – don’t worry about coring
- 450g fresh or frozen cranberries
- 1kg bag preserving sugar(not with added pectin)
- 1 tsp rosewater
- a few small, fresh bay leavesto decorate the jars (optional)
Nutrition: per tbsp
- kcal46
- fat0glow
- saturates0g
- carbs11g
- sugars11g
- fibre0g
- protein0g
- salt0g
Method
step 1
Put the quinces, apples and cranberries in a large pan. Cover with water and bring to the boil, then turn down the heat and cook more gently for about 1 hr until the fruit is really soft.
step 2
Hang a jelly bag over a large mixing bowl, tip the fruit in and let it drip overnight – don’t be tempted to squeeze the bag, or the pulp will come through and your jelly will be murky.
step 3
The next day, measure the amount of juice you have and, for every 1ml of liquid, match with grams of the sugar (so for 500ml you’d need 500g sugar). Tip both into a preserving pan, or large pan, and bring slowly to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Increase the heat once the sugar has gone and boil until it reaches 110C on a sugar thermometer.
step 4
Skim any scum off the surface of the liquid, then stir in the rosewater. Ladle into sterilised jars (see below left), adding a bay leaf to each one, if you like, and cover with lids – or wax discs, cellophane and elastic bands.
