Candied Pumpkin
I had a lovely harvest of pumpkins this year and I didn't want them going to waste. I wanted a recipe to use for storing the glut. This lead me to the idea of candied pumpkin. With nothing to lose, I experimented and was blown away by the result. Everyone who tries these candied gems invariably requests a second helping. Ingredients: - Peeled pumpkin - 1kg - Demerara sugar - 500g - Cold water - Cloves - 15 buds - Ground cinnamon - 1 tbs - Lemon juice - from 1 lemon - Icing sugar - 10g Instructions Cut the peeled pumpkins into cubes about the size of large gaming dice. Put the cubes in a large pot and add cold water until they are just covered. Add the demerara sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, and cloves to the pot and stir all the ingredients together. Heat the pot to boiling, while stirring occasionally and gently. You want the pumpkin cubes to stay intacted. Turn down the heat to a low simmer. Leave the lid off your pot. Keep the mixture simmering until the liquid evapo...