Hello,
A few
Christmas’s ago I tried for the first time making my own jam preserve from
scratch, I thought jam making would be a bit of a time consuming process but I didn’t
actually realise how time consuming a process it would actually be.
However it is a very rewarding process that I am very glad to take part in!
This past
year (2013) I decided that for part of Noble and I’s Christmas presents I would
make homemade jam. I have my own recipe which I will share with you today, also
I apologise in advance for my photographs.
Ingredients – 4kg of
frozen mixed berry fruit
2kg of jam
sugar which includes pectin
Large pot
Long
handled spoon.
Time: Roughly
Three hours in total.
This will fill two large sized jam jars.
Ø Firstly,
add all of the fruit into the pot and stir on a high heat to cook down the
mixed berries, you will have to stir the fruit during this whole process. This
can be quite a lengthy process and can take up to two hours to do so, depending
on the fruit you are using.
Ø After the above process before adding the jam sugar to the fruit, take your jars and fill with water, put them in the oven on a heat of 100 degrees for thirty minutes. This will sterilise your jars for putting the jam into
Ø Once
the fruit is all cooked down, turn the heat down to maybe a mark 1 or 2, then
slowly start adding the jam sugar in small doses and stir continuously. Keep
adding in the sugar until you have used two bags of the jam sugar, then turn
the heat up to full and stir very quickly. Carry out this process for at least
10 minutes then take the jam off the heat.
Ø Ladle
the jam into the sterilised jars removing the water contained inside them. Pop
the lids onto the warm jars and leave the jam to set.
Ø Leave
jars overnight and they should all be set and ready to eat.
Ø Enjoy!
When spreading
the jam onto your desired canvas, whether it be scones or toast, always
remember to put a clean spoon into your jam jar, as dirty cutlery ruins
preserves.
Thank you
for reading
Katy
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