Want a Unique Carrot Recipe? Make Carrot Almond Jam

This jam is an extension of a failed recipe for Passover carrot candy from an ancient cookbook put out by a home for the aged in Worcester, Massachusetts. I've abandoned ship on making the candy, but this jam is an unusual and sweet treat unto itself. I also dig this one because all of the produce isn't super seasonally dependent. Not only will this add veggie power to your breakfast toast, but it's fah-bu-lous mixed with cream cheese as a frosting for carrot cake. If you can't find tamari almonds, just roasted and salted ones will work.
 
--Excerpted from Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It by Karen Solomon, published by Ten Speed Press. Photographs by Angie Cao.
 
Ingredients:
 
1 1/2 pounds carrots, trimmed, peeled, and shredded (about 41/4 cups)
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/ 2 cup water
1/ 2 cup chopped tamari almonds
1 thin-skinned orange
1 lemon

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