Homemade jam is ordinarily in addition to thence total of sugar, but it doesn't bring to be! Using Pomona's Pectin, 1 tin brand a low-sugar, honey-sweetened, or fruit juice-sweetened homemade jam. This especial pectin comes from citrus peel. The jelling is activated yesteryear calcium H2O (mono calcium phosphate) which comes alongside the pectin. It is in addition to thence slow to brand jam from all of your freshly picked fruit of the season. Making in addition to canning jam is 1 of the peachy ways to save the harvest!
Last twelvemonth I experimented quite a fleck alongside roughly of the hundreds of pounds of fruit nosotros harvested. I made an awesome Vanilla-Plum Jam sweetened alongside kokosnoot sugar, a Honey-Sweetened Blueberry Jam, Spiced Peach Jam made without pectin in addition to alongside sugar, Blueberry-Lemon Jam made alongside a pocket-sized amount of pureed unripe, young apples every bit the pectin beginning (unripe apples are high inward pectin), a tart Italian Plum-Agave Jam, in addition to Cherry-Peach Jam sweetened alongside grape juice concentrate. Let me say you, homemade jam makes for many wonderful Christmas gifts!
Honey-Sweetened Jam
My recipe is barely adapted from the really detailed directions in addition to variations given inward the bundle of Pomona Pectin. You should hold upwards able to notice this especial pectin at your local co-op or wellness nutrient store. I purpose a blender (Vitamix) to chop-chop squash my fruit. Not in addition to thence it is pureed, only terra firma upwards in addition to even in addition to thence a picayune chunky. This recipe is for strawberries, raspberries, cherries, currants, in addition to gooseberries. You'll take to add together a certainly amount of lemon juice for other fruits. Follow the directions that come upwards alongside the package. The ii jams pictured hither are Strawberry-Honey in addition to Strawberry-Raspberry-Black Currant-Honey. For the later, I used equal parts of the 3 fruits.
8 to 10 cups prepared fruit (hulled, rinsed, stems removed) = to half dozen cups mashed, ground-up fruit
1 tablespoon calcium water*
1 loving cup honey
1 tablespoon Pomona Pectin
Boil your jars in addition to lids inward a large pot. For this recipe I purpose 5 12-ounce jam jars. Turn off oestrus in addition to allow them stand upwards inward hot H2O until you lot are ready to purpose them.
Fill your Vitamix to the brim alongside your fruit. Pulse in addition to blend until you lot bring 6 cups of ground-up, slightly chunky fruit. Pour into a large pot. Add the calcium water. Stir well. Bring to a boil. In the meantime, mix 1 loving cup of dearest alongside the 1 tablespoon of pectin. I purpose a fork to practise this. Add honey-pectin to boiling fruit in addition to stir vigorously for 1 to 2 minutes. Bring dorsum to a boil for a few to a greater extent than minutes.
Carefully elevator your jars out of the pot alongside a couple of tongs, empty out whatsoever water, in addition to laid onto a towel on your counter. Pour jam into each jar, leaving most 1/4-inch of infinite at the top. Wipe whatsoever excess from the rim using a moist construct clean towel. You take to brand certainly the rim is completely construct clean in addition to thence you lot larn a good, company seal. Lift the lids from the hot H2O alongside the tongs in addition to identify onto the jars. Screw on lids. Place jars into a boiling H2O bathroom for 10 to xv minutes. Remove in addition to allow cool on counter. After 24 hours all lids should bring sealed. They ordinarily seal inside the hour. You'll take heed a loud "pop." Please refer to the post I did final twelvemonth on How to Make in addition to Can Applesauce for detailed photos on the canning process.
*The Calcium Water is made yesteryear mixing the powdered calcium alongside water. Directions are inward the package.
Pictured higher upwards is my recipe for Oatmeal-Banana Pancakes spread alongside the Strawberry-Raspberry-Black Currant Jam. The pancake recipe is inward the cookbook! :)
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