Jam site!

[Nicos]

Look what I just found!!

Jam Recipes | Marmalade Recipes | Jelly Recipes | Curd Recipes

I'm planning on making some gooseberry curd with some of the gooseberries still in the freezer from last year!

Some of those recipies look interesting!

AND...just look at all those with a difficulty level of.....EASY!!!!!!

[piskieinboots]

nice one Nicos - I'm new (very) to jam making (nekkid for the Calendar next ) very useful site

[coomber]

added to favorites
now i know what to do with all those loganberries

Thanks

[Stacey Steve]

Thank you, I've just got brownie points from OH

[janeyo]

Does anyone know if you have to have a jam thermometer to make jam? is there a way around it? And if not where do I get one as I've looked in tesco and woolies and wilkos and they don't have them.

Cheers janeyo

[Nicos]

Here you go Janeyo...I think I need one too!

Preserving Thermometer - Lakeland, the home of creative kitchenware

[Farmer_Gyles]

i had a go at making plum jam last year - sorta worked but not brilliant
this year will have loads of loganberries, gooseberries, raspberries and plums
hoping someone will come round and make the jams etc for me ........
any volunteers?

[janeyo]

Thanks nicos - my friend was trying to tell me that she puts some on a saucer and puts it in the freezer and then she knows when it's done - but not being much of a Nigella, I hadn't a scooby what she meant! Defo need a thermometer

janeyo

[Seahorse]

Great site

Janeyo, it's not as accurate as a proper jam thermometer but if you keep a saucer in the freezer, then put the jam on it straight from the pan and it 'wrinkles' when you push it about with a spoon, it's done.

[Nicos]

i had a go at making plum jam last year - sorta worked but not brilliant
this year will have loads of loganberries, gooseberries, raspberries and plums
hoping someone will come round and make the jams etc for me ........
any volunteers?

Hey..if I can make jam...anyone can!!!

[zazen999]

I'd make gooseberry jam from the crop i'm expecting this year; but there is currently only 1 actual berry on it. I put it into the lottie today so perhaps I will have better luck next year.

1 gooseberry - i ask you! And it had loads of flowers on it a few weeks ago.

[janeyo]

Thanks seahorse, I get it now!
janeyo

[Sanjo]

Jayneyo, I agree with Seahorse. I always did my jam making using the cold saucer and it does work. Not too big a dollop of jam though (a teaspoon is usually enough) as it will take a while to cool enough to "skin". In fact I do now have a jam thermometer but I am so oldfashioned that I am secretly nervous that it will explode in my jam!!! You can also do a flake test. Same principle. Put a very cold spoon in the jam, let it cool and then tilt the spoon. It should slide off slowly in a flake shape rather than a dollop or drop. Prefer the saucer myself. Incidentally, (in my opinion) strawberry jam is not a good one for testing by either of these methods as it is not a good setter on its own. If you are brave enough to use the thermometer and not a wimp like me it's probably a more reliable method. Lakeland or and good quality hardware store will sell them.

[janeyo]

Thanks Sanjo, I am def going to make jam (first time this year). Prob not strawb as my 3 yr old eats them too fast, but we have loads of blackberry bushes beside our new house so will prob be blackberry and apple. Yum

janeyo

[Hans Mum]

thanks for the link will be using it loads