Blackberry Jam Receipe

[NSB]

Hi Everyone

Does anyone have a blackberry jam recipe and the procedure on how to make jam. This is my first at trying. As I am a can cook dont cook person it has to be straightforward

Thanks

[pigletwillie]

easy,

1lb fruit 1lb sugar
quarter pint water

Multiply the above as required.

Put a small plate in the freezer.

Put the water and fruit in a large saucepan or maslin pan and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Then add the sugar and turn up your hob to its highest setting to get a rolling boil (it still boils even when stirred). After 15 minutes take a small spoon of liquid out of the saucepan and put it on the small plate you will have just taken outof the freezer. After a minute push your finger through the liquid and if it wrinkles up its ready. Turn off the heat and pour into sterelised jars and close the lids immediately.

Black currant jam sets very easily so do not over boil

[valmarg]

Oooops Piglet, NSB mentions blackberries, you give a recipe for blackcurrant jam.

I remember from childhood (more years ago than I care to remember) the 'family' making blackberry and apple jam, or even blackberry and apple jelly. Both were delicious.

Shall have to dig deep into my cookbook archives, and shall come back!!

valmarg

[pigletwillie]

Doh, that will teach me to read the posts properly Valmarg.

[Flummery]

You could do the same but add the juice of a lemon. That contains pecten and wil help with the setting.

[NSB]

Thanks everyone

[GardenFan]

If your super lazy like me and own a breadmachine then chances are it will have a bread setting for making jam and will save you bags of time. The quantites you use vary depending on the fruit but for blackcurrant I find that two cups of sugar to every cup of blackcurrant works to balance the sharpness of the blackcurrant with out taking it away completely.

[Polly Fouracre]

3lbs.blackberries(not too ripe)
Colanderful windfall cooking apples(or juice of two lemons)
water
sugar
Simmer berries and apples(no need to peel,just wash and cut up)in 1pt. water until soft,put in jelly bag,thick muslin,old tea-towel or whatever you have handy,tie stout string around top and suspend from hook,upturned stool,or what you will and leave for a good few hours.
Dont be tempted to squeeze the bag to hurry things along,you will get cloudy jelly.
Add 1lb.sugar to every 1pt. juice and boil hard until done. A lovely taste of late summer on dark,cold winter days!

[valmarg]

You pipped me to the post Polly. I dug out my recipe from an old (very old) Good Housekeeping cookbook (1961). It stipulates pound for pound apples to blackberries, otherwise identical to your recipe.

In my Australian Women's Weekly cookbook on preserves, there is the following recipe for jam:-

BLACKBERRY AND APPLE JAM

800g apples
800g blackberries
½ cup water
approx 1kg sugar

Peel, core and finely chop apples. Combine apples, berries and water in a large saucepan. Bring to boil, simmer for about 30 minutes, or until fruit is soft.

Measure fruit mixture. Allow ¾lb sugar to each 1lb fruit mixture.

Return fruit mixture and sugar to pan, stir over heat, without boiling until sugar is dissolved. Bring to boil, boil, uncovered, without stirring, for about 15minutes, or until jam jells when tested. Pour into sterilised jars, seal when cold.

In the GH cookbook, there is also a recipe for bramble jelly. This uses 100% blackberries. The recipe calls for 4lb to half a pint of water, and half an ounce of tartaric acid. After the initial cooking and straining, it is the same method and quantities as in Polly's recipe.

valmarg

[seasprout]

Try this book...

Hi Everyone

Does anyone have a blackberry jam recipe and the procedure on how to make jam. This is my first at trying. As I am a can cook don't cook person it has to be straightforward

Thanks

A year ago i got good advice from this site and was advised to seek out this book..

The Basic, Basics. Jams, Preserves and Chutneys Handbook By Marguerite Patten.

It's full of recipes and methods and advice for just about everything. I got it initially from my library but bought a copy as i was using it so much.

Found it on amazon here... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Basic-Basics...4935759&sr=1-1