Ingredients
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1 cup dark brown sugar, like muscovado
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2 cups apple cider vinegar
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1/2 cup water
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2 teaspoons ground turmeric
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1 tablespoon curry powder, mild, flavourful (use Cape Malay, or use a good masala)
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1 tablespoon mustard seeds (pref. yellow)
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2 teaspoons sea salt
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10 lemons, rough-skinned (the thick-skinned, old-fashioned kind of lemon)
Instructions
- You need clean bottling jars for this. You need about 5 - 6 1-cup jars or 3 larger ones. Put into a cold oven, then heat oven 325 deg C/160 deg F and leave until needed.
- Halve the lemons, then slice into thin slices. Remove pips.
- Put the rest of the ingredients in a fairly big pot with a thick bottom, stir well, and bring to boiling.
- Boil for about 12 minutes, then add the lemon slices. Stir well once and pull from heat.
- Carefully take your sterilised bottles from the oven (best is to put them straight on to a metal oven tin).
- With a slotted spoon, ladle the lemon pieces into the jars, the fill up with the liquid, to cover the lemon slices.
- Very carefully, using oven gloves, wipe spills off the bottle necks with a damp cloth.
- Seal bottles with their tops.
- Cool, wipe completely clean, label, and leave for 2 weeks before using.