Anyone successfully made a nice jam?

[cookie1]

Delicious Chookie.

[obbie]

  i made mulberry jam again yesterday. my 2 trees are loaded at the moment.
Robyn

[gertbysea]

A stranger gave me 2 kilos of kumquats so I used 1 kilo for jam and the other I pulped skins and all. The jam is yummy and I don't know yet what I will do with the pulp in the freezer.

Gretch

[judydawn]

How about some fruity wine or spirit Gretchen 

[gertbysea]

Why not. Gert's Kumquat Vodka. Ok I'll do it as soon as my son and family visit. Arriving tomorrow for a week of Vegan eating. So looking forward to that.

Gert

[quirkycooking]

This is my favourite way of making jam - so quick (8 minutes) and you don't have to use heaps of sugar.  Sometimes I use honey, sometimes Rapadura.  Recipe here.

[cookie1]

Thanks for that Jo. I'm needing to make some more jam soon so I'll definitely give it a try.

[brazen20au]

the last lot of jam i made used 1kg of strawberries and is nearly inedible, it's so sour

[quirkycooking]

How annoying - guess it depends on the fruit.  Can't you redo it with some more sweetener?

[gertbysea]

I would just put it back in the thermomix with some sugar for about 10 minutes and see what happens. Shame to waste it. I am sure it will be fine.

Gert

[brazen20au]

i'm sure i'd actually put in more sugar than usual! (i usually do 50% of the fruit weight in sugar eg: 1kg fruit, 500g sugar. but i'm sure i did more like 700g or so. i made it a few weeks ago so i'm not sure i could recook?

[achookwoman]

You can recook it any time.   I usually use 3/4 volume of sugar to fruit.   You can even add it to another lot of berry jam.

[gertbysea]

Good grief brazen. How did it come out so sour? Amazing for strawberries. Maybe just use it with ice cream as a sauce. Strawberry daiquiri? Strange one.


Or you could just dump it and forgetabboutit
Gert

[Thermomixer]

Nice one Quirky Jo.  Like the new Avatar, new look blog - good work. 

[quirkycooking]

Thanks Thermomixer