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 Easy Jam and Bread Pudding- Homemade Mixed Fruit Jam Recipe Classic old-fashioned bread and jam pudding is a wonderfully satisfying no-fuss dessert. Bread pudding is a comforting dessert to treat your family on chilly winter evenings. If you have left-over bread, you can bake this delicious dessert in no time. It has a rich and creamy custard and the sticky sweetness from the jam. The pudding has a few simple ingredients and absolute comfort to dig in! Your whole family will love it, and they will even come back for seconds. I am also sharing the recipe for homemade mixed fruit jam with easy-to-make instructions. Homemade mixed fruit jam is delicious with so much flavor. It is so easy to make your jam with seasonal fruits of your choice, plus the added benefit is the quality and freshness of the fruits. Strawberry jam, plum jam, and raspberry jam taste delicious in bread pudding. Feel free to use whatever you have at hand. Bread pudding with layers of jam is beautiful and incredi...

Fruits Varattiyathu Todays recipe is fruits varattiyathu/ fruit preserve  made in traditional Kerala style. Chakka varatti/jack fruit preserve is a popular in  Kerala which is made with fully ripe jack fruit bulbs. Along with chakka/jack fruit I have used pineapple, ripe plantain and ripe mango to make this fruits varattiyathu. It can be used as a jam or it can be served as halwa/dessert. You can also use this to make payasam, ila ada and steamed dumplings. Try this,you will surely love it Ingredients Ripe Jack fruit chopped- 15-18 bulbs Pineapple chopped- 1 cup Ripe plantain- 1 Mango medium sized- 1 Jaggery powdered- 2 1/2 cup Ghee- 1/3 cup Cardamon powder- 1 tsp Dry ginger powder- 1/2 tsp De-seed jack fruit bulbs and cut into small pieces. Chop the fruits and keep aside Boil jaggery with 2 cup of water till completely dissolved, strain and keep aside. Take a heavy bottom pan and cook the chopped fruits with one cup of water. When the fr...

Linzer Cookies Baking partners challenge for February,Valentine month is heart shape Linzer cookies. This recipe was suggested by Swathi . Swathi send us two cookie recipes- Linzer heart cookies and heart shaped crunchy seed cookies.Linzer cookie recipe is egg less almond flavored cookies. It is buttery and delicate sandwiched cookies. The filling is jam/fruit preserve. Try this yummy cookies,you will surely love it. Adapted from Alice Medrich, Chewy, Gooey, Crispy, Crunchy Ingredients  Unbleached all-purpose flour-1  cup 2 tablespoon  (5.06 ounces)/145g Ground almonds and/or hazelnuts-1/2 cup (2.5 ounces) 63g Sugar-1/4 cup (1.75 ounces)/50g Salt- 1/8 tsp Ground Cinnamon- 1/8 tsp Ground clove- 1/8 tsp Butter- 8 tbs Almond extract- 1/8 tsp  Lemon zest- 1 tsp Orange zest- 1 tsp Strawberry jam- Powdered sugar for dusting Blanch almond and process in food processor till fine powder along with one tsp powdered sugar. (you can also u...