I've just made my first ever jam!

[janeyo]

V pleased with myself. It was blackberry and apple, (all free).

I def need a bigger pan if I want to make more as I had to quarter all the ingredients to get them in! Trouble is we have an induction hob and not sure where to get a preserving pan that would work on it.

I have just got to put some little labels on and all done.

Will obviously wait for OH and my little boy to start with the... I only like strawberry jam comments and will bop them with the wooden spoon!

janeyo

[rustylady]

Well done Janeyo! I made blackberry & apple jelly yesterday. Windfall cooking apples from the garden and blackberries I've been picking and storing in the freezer till I had enough. I make jelly cos I don't like the pips and seeds. Same principle, just stew the fruit, strain the pulp through a jelly bag so you just get juice. Then add a pound of sugar to a pint of juice and boil for around 10 minutes till you reach setting point. Pour into warm jars, label and enjoy.

[scarey55]

Well done Janey - it's so satisfying isn't it.

I too have an induction hob and I have found that most of my big pans work on it. I don't have an actual preserving pan so I just use the bigest saucepan I have, having said that, induction is becomming more popular so you shouldn't have too much trouble.

looking forward to a picture of the finished article (jam, that is not saucepan)

Edited to add:
You're right Rustylady, jelly is much better than jam - I don't like the pips either

[janeyo]

I will have a go at the seedless one too then maybe the family will actually eat my eforts!

janeyo

[Flummery]

I made plum last week. On Thursday I shall be mostly making Damson and Apple - all from my damson tree and a friend's cooking apple tree. Still got gooseberries in the freezer for another batch of that. I made gooseberry and elderflower in July - a favourite of ours. I started to wonder about trying gooseberry with a few (half pound to 3 lb goosegogs) elderberries - the autumn version. Do you reckon it would be ok?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Hmph.

I had two plums on my little tree this year - I ate one, and let the other ripen a little further. A few days later, I watched the cute squirrel from the kitchen window as he hopped along the fence, up the cherry tree, across to the fatballs in the plum tree.

He then nicked the bloody plum.

[wellie]

Oh Clever JaneyO!

Isn't it just such a lovely feeling when it all works out?
Flummery. Personally, I don't know, sorry.
Hazel. Bummer darling!!

JaneyO, I can't think of anything more satisfying, than making something out of the produce that you harvest, whether from you own plot, or for totally free from Mother Nature's Garden. Wherever you harvest it from, it sure tastes a million times better than from the shops... Excellent Job! Everyone should have a go, don't you think?
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[BrideXIII]

years ago, my mum used to make marmalade, from tinned stuff? can't remember the name, and then she used to make jam, I would love to have a go, but garden too small to produce fruit sadly.

one thing i have always wanted to try was quince jelly, i had read a story as a little girl about a cat and a quince bush, it kinda stuck with me, and i am still on the look out for a quince bush, there IS one down the road, but I have yet to figure out how to propogate from it, any clues?

[Flummery]

Ma-Made (or Ma-Maid) something like that. My mum used it once or twice too.

[janeyo]

Well OH and my little boy had the jam on their scones this morning.

OH loved it although he says it's a little runny.

Louis claimed it was SALTY!

LOL!

But he did try some so that was good.

janeyo

[Flummery]

What are you making next? It's addictive, jam making!

[janeyo]

I've got some elderberries in the freezer - would they go with apple? No pips then.

janeyo

[Flummery]

Well I'm hoping to try elderberry and gooseberry! I wouldn't put too many elderberies in though, strong and not very sweet flavour. You can't have a sweet flavour but you know what I mean.

[amandaandherveg]

Well done, and yes Flumm's right, it is addictive.

I only started with the jam making this year and now have have nearly 200 jars of jams, marmalades and chutneys stashed in my kitchen cupboards. Everything is now eyed up as possible chutney/jam ingredients. I'm going to put a table outside with an honesty box this weekend and see if I sell anything. I stay on the main street of my village, hopefully I'll sell some - it's quite exciting.

What are you going to make next then?