Jackfruit Jam

Ingredients Jackfruit flakes: 1 kg Cloves: 12 Cinnamon: 6(1 pieces) Sugar: one-and-a half kg Citric acid: 1 tsp Water: 6 cups Method Remove the seeds from the jackfruit and cut it into small pieces. Cook them in water just enough to immerse the jackfruit pieces, adding the crushed cloves and cinnamon. When the water boils remove the clove and cinnamon pieces from it. Smash the cooked jackfruit or grind it in a mixer and sieve it. Heat water, sugar and citric acid  in a vessel. When it boils add the fruit pulp into it. Stir continuously. When  the solution thickens, remove it from the fire and pour it into a prepared bottle. Cool the jam in the bottle  and then store it. To test whether the jam is done, cool the jam on a ladle. If  it is cool, the jam should fall from the tilted ladle in flakes rather than in drops.   The Hindu February 26 2009