Jam Making Thread!

This one is excellent, yet simple. I get many, many compliments. The cinnamon is just enough to enhance the flavor, but you do not actually taste "cinnamon".


Blueberry Peach Jam
(Makes eight 8-ounce jars)

3 cups fresh blueberries
2 cups fresh peach slices
1 package fruit pectin
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
7 cups sugar


Crush blueberries and put in a medium saucepan. Cut the peach slices into pieces and grind in a food processor or food mill; add to the blueberries. Mix fruit pectin and cinnamon into the fruit mixture and cook over high heat until mixture comes to a boil, stirring constantly.

Add sugar all at once, bring to a full boil and boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Skim to remove foam. Ladle into hot jars and process 10 min in boiling water bath.
 
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Had good luck with three batches of blackberry, two batches of plum, but when I got to the pear.... WHAT"s with it with the pear??? Jeepers. I followed the recipe in Hobby Farm for pear butter, where you put it in the over at 300* and keep stirring it, but it never thickened. so finally got it out, put it on the stovetop, dumped in some suregel and brought it to a rolling boil for 4 minutes and am crossing my fingers. Why is pear difficult? I have heard this from several friends and see it here, too!

Anyone ever try jam from wine grapes like Zinfandel or Merlot?

 
So far I have made:

Nectarine Jam
Strawberry Jam
Blackberry Jam
Peach Jam


I use my husbands grandmother's method for jam making - I don't use pectin.
 
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When I do this I take equal parts of sugar to fruit ( like 6 cups to 6 cups) I add 1 tbls. of lemon juice,and boil down stirring constantly untill the third drop from a spoon gels on the spoon ( pull the spoon up after stirring and it drip,drip and then gels the last drop doesnt want to fall back to the pan).Then its ready to jar up.
 
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I usually use a 1 to 1 ratio of fruit puree to sugar. (except with nectarines, I use a bit less sugar because it's so sweet) Boil the mixture over low heat until it sets. Put some spoons in the freezer and when you think it's ready, test it on the cold spoon. The jam should gel on the spoon and the drip will hang from the spoon.
 
So... Here's my recipe based on everyone's help:

Blueberry Jam Recipe
(No added pectin)
Ingredients:
3 cups of fresh blueberries
3 cups of sugar
3/4 Tablespoons of lemon juice

Steps:
(Please correct me if I'm wrong)
1. Bring the crushed blueberries to a slow boil
2. Pour the sugar and lemon juice in, and bring it to a hard boil, and stir consistently
3. When you think it's ready, take a spoon and see if the third drop gels
4. Pour in sanitized jars and turn them upside down.
 

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