Meg's Fruit Cordial

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My Plate, Your Plate is a storytelling and community arts cooking project where participants share recipes and stories. The project aims to build relationships between local residents and people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, breaking down social isolation, building cultural awareness and solidarity.

This recipe was shared by Shanda, project participant, hear her story below and download the recipe.

Shanda's Story

A photo of Shanda by Samuel Phibbs, Shanda looks down at something in the kitchen and wears a flowery marrimekko style top with a green and black theme

Photo by Samuel Phibbs

Transcript

Shanda transcript (DOCX 12.7KB)

Ingredients

4 lemons (grate the zest of 2 of the lemons and reserve)
4 oranges (grate the zest of 2 of the oranges and reserve)
4 passionfruit
28 grams citric acid (approx. 5 generously heaped teaspoons)
20 grams tartaric acid (approx. 4 heaped teaspoons)
20 grams Epsom salts (approx. 4 level teaspoons)
1814 grams white sugar (just under 2kg)
2 litres plus 200ml water

Method

Step 1

Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes until the sugar is all dissolved.
Cool slightly.

Step 2

Combine the sugar and water mixture with the juice of all the fruits and the rind of 2 of the lemons and oranges along with the citric and tartaric acids and the Epsom salts.

Step 3

Pour the liquid into 5 sterilized bottles (this will depend on the size of the bottles) * you can sterilize bottles by cleaning them and then placing them still wet from rinsing (without lids) in a heated oven (160°) for 10 minutes or in the microwave for 2 minutes.

*Allow bottles to cool before pouring in cordial.
*Leave Cordial for 48 hours before drinking.

To serve put a small amount in a glass and add water or soda water and ice.

Allergy warning

Contains passionfruit

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Meg's Fruit Cordial recipe card (PDF 319.7KB)