Watermelon Rind Jam

Ingredients

• You'll need a large watermelon, which will yield about two jars of jam. Note that we will use only the white rind between the green outer layer and the red flesh. In other words, don't discard the rind after cutting the watermelon; remove the green skin and keep the thin white layer just beneath the red flesh. This is the part we'll use to make the jam...
• Sugar (for each cup of watermelon rind, use 1 cup sugar)
• Whole cardamom pods
• Water
• Lemon juice

Method

1. Wash the watermelon, cut it, and reserve the red flesh for direct eating or juice; discard the green rind and keep the white inner rind.
2. Cut the white rind into cubes and soak in water for about 12 hours...
   Timers: 720 min
3. After the required time, simmer the white rind until tender, then remove from heat and drain in a sieve until all the water is gone, then squeeze well...
4. Prepare the syrup: for each cup of sugar, one cup water and a squeeze of lemon juice...
5. When the syrup starts boiling and thickening a bit, add the boiled and squeezed pieces of watermelon rind and let it boil in the syrup over low heat until the rinds shine and become translucent...
6. In a fine cloth (cheesecloth) place a few whole cardamom pods to give the jam a very distinctive aroma... Place the cloth with the cardamom in a clean glass jar and pour the hot jam into the jar and seal the jar or container...
7. Later when opening the jar, refrigerate to preserve its quality...
8. Recipe from a friend of Shou Tabkhin Today
9. Iman Rustum Askari