First off...I have to go pick the guavas. I have two trees out back. One has a pink center and the other is kind of orange-ish. I cut the tops and bottoms off, cut them in half, scoop out the seeds with a melon-baller (which is the perfect size!) and then wash them in order to get all the rest of the tiny seeds out. I boil the guava halves until soft, then put them through the blender. In one pot-ful of guava pulp I add one kilo (2.2lbs) of sugar. It has to boil down for hours! My jam is done when it changes to a thick, dark red sauce. It is VERY messy and when it boils it can shoot out at you...but, it is so good! After it boils down for a while, sometimes I will put it in my slow cooker in order to finish the cooking process on the lowest setting. Then, it doesn't shoot out while it's boiling. You can buy guava paste in the states, in international stores.
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I love the rich dark color. What does it smell like? Really fruity?
I might go yo World Market and snag a jar of guava something.
Yum.....
guavas are on sale here in town for 99 cents/pound! Just ship some up, okay? :)
This is my favorite kind of jam. I don´t have a tree, but many people here do, and they sell the jam at our local supermarket. So I just get to buy it. And it´s like homemade!
heidiannie-I cannot describe tropical fruits' smells...especially the guava. Sometimes it comes in a tin can. You can use it in chunks as fillers for cookies.
LindaSue- here, people beg you to take there guavas so flies don't come by.
Betty - homemade is by far better than the supermarket. I think that I enjoy the challenge of making it. My husband says I LOOK for work to do instead of resting, but hey, then we can enjoy homemade jam!
never mind the smell of it, it's the taste that I'd like to try! It looks absolutely wonderful! And I do enjoy making different jams and jellies. Can you make a jelly with it?
Do you peel it first, or just throw the whole thing in?
apeg-the jelly part gets a little more complicated and messier. I'm not ready for all that straining.
martha-I DON'T peel them, but I found a recipe that says you should. No one here in Paraguay peels them as far as I know. I DO take all the seeds and worms out though! That's why I like homemade, 'cause I'm SURE I take the worms out!
Yea, it looks messy, but YUM in the next couple of months when you can enjoy the fruits of your labor.
I made some guava juice and didn't know about the worms. It was not a pleasant discovery. Anyway, our second guava tree is producing now. We have pink and white guava varieties. Throwing the rotten ones reminds me of throwing rotten tomatoes. (Not that I ever did that, just from what OTHER people told me ;-)
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