Tayberry Jam ??

[Stacey Steve]

We seem to be on the eve of an abundance of Tayberries in the fruit cage.

OH has dried a lot as an experiment but now wants to have a go at jam making with them.

Any recipes/advice??

[Hilary B]

Should work much like raspberry surely?

[Stacey Steve]

The fruits don't pick off the same as raspberries, in as far as with raspberries the hull pulls out but on the tayberries it stays in, so don't know if you have to half them to take out the hull or whether just leave them in.

[Hilary B]

More like blackberries in that respect then? What happens when you eat them fresh? Do you eat the hull?

[Stacey Steve]

Well I do, they are a little firm eaten whole. I presume they must be ripe as in the wind the other day, some had dropped off the plants.

As I had not grown them before or seen them at any PYO places, I did not know when to pick them really but as some had fell, I started picking them when they looked the same colour and firmness/softness of those that fell.

[Alison]

You do eat the hull, just as you do for blackberries (aren't they are raspberry / black berry cross?). Have used them in jam in the past and simply gone for and equal sugar / fruit weight ratio as normal and it's been fine.

[Stacey Steve]

Alison

Yes they are a hybrid cross of raspberry & blackberry.

Thanks, OH will try this out.

I take it you don't have to add pectin or anything

[Stacey Steve]

Well OH made her first batch of jam and it worked well using equal amounts of sugar to fruit by weight.

What she did find was that as it is cooking and she was stirring, that the hulls floated to the surface and she just skimmed them off.

She is starting to feel that I am tying her to the kitchen as what with the jam (she's got a lot more to make yet) and drying fruit, I think her pushing me to take 3 plots has rebounded on her.

I told her that this must make her feel more feminine being in the kitchen more, what with house cleaning, washing ironing etc, she must feel she has reached nirvana.

[Hilary B]

Well OH made her first batch of jam and it worked well using equal amounts of sugar to fruit by weight.

What she did find was that as it is cooking and she was stirring, that the hulls floated to the surface and she just skimmed them off.

She is starting to feel that I am tying her to the kitchen as what with the jam (she's got a lot more to make yet) and drying fruit, I think her pushing me to take 3 plots has rebounded on her.

I told her that this must make her feel more feminine being in the kitchen more, what with house cleaning, washing ironing etc, she must feel she has reached nirvana.

And when you get out of hospital you will be straight back to the allotment<g>

[Stacey Steve]

And you think I let OH see what I write...I'm not that mad

[Hilary B]

I was referring to what you CLAIMED to have said TO her<g>
If my OH made such a comment he'd regret it (although vengeance would be no more serious than the comment itself. I have ways of retalliating for undue 'humour'......)

[alldigging]

Are tayberries supposed to be a bit sour?
Have picked a couple of very dark ones and they are still a bit sour.

[Alison]

Are tayberries supposed to be a bit sour?
Have picked a couple of very dark ones and they are still a bit sour.

They're not as sweet as raspberries but not exactly sour. Easy to tell if thy are ripe though as they're nice and soft and pick easily.

[Scarlet]

Just repeating what Alison has said really but some of mine were ready the end of last week...unfortunately none of them made it to the house