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I have just been and raided the wild (?) plum trees at my local park and made the most delicious marmalade/jam stuff that my mum sent me the recipe for. So here goes:
2kg plums - I used slightly under-ripe ones to make sure they had enough pectin
1.5kg sugar
250g sultanas - chopped (could be any dried fruit you have knocking about)
2 oranges - unwaxed
1 lemon - unwaxed
You peel the oranges and lemons and shred the peel trying to avoid using too much pith. Put the plums, orange and lemon peel, juice from all the citrus, sugar and dried fruit into a pan. Boil up the mix until the plum stones rise to the surface (really good as the wild plums that I used were tiny and stoning them would have taken me an age). Ones the stones are out you just simmer it till it thickens then place in sterilised jam jars.
From my spoon licking and the odd spillage this jam tastes yummy and is a beautiful colour.
2kg plums - I used slightly under-ripe ones to make sure they had enough pectin
1.5kg sugar
250g sultanas - chopped (could be any dried fruit you have knocking about)
2 oranges - unwaxed
1 lemon - unwaxed
You peel the oranges and lemons and shred the peel trying to avoid using too much pith. Put the plums, orange and lemon peel, juice from all the citrus, sugar and dried fruit into a pan. Boil up the mix until the plum stones rise to the surface (really good as the wild plums that I used were tiny and stoning them would have taken me an age). Ones the stones are out you just simmer it till it thickens then place in sterilised jam jars.
From my spoon licking and the odd spillage this jam tastes yummy and is a beautiful colour.
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