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Clear, easy directions make canning your individual peach jam a breeze. Excellent for having fun with the candy style of summer time all 12 months lengthy!
There’s something particular about home made jam. The scent of fruit cooking is nice and scrumptious and the aroma really takes me again to my grandmother’s kitchen.
As somebody who lived via The Nice Despair, my grandmother at all times served bread with dinner as a reasonable filler. It was easy sandwich bread–we known as it “jelly bread”–and her home made jam made it style like one million bucks!
For a couple of additional jam-making suggestions, click on on this hyperlink to my Basic Strawberry Jam recipe.
Basic Peach Jam
Clear, easy directions make canning your individual peach jam a breeze. Excellent for having fun with the candy style of summer time all 12 months lengthy!
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- 3 kilos peaches, peeled, pitted and finely chopped (about 4 to 4-1/2 cups, finely chopped)
- 5-1/2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons contemporary lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon butter (this helps scale back foaming)
- 1 field fruit pectin (I take advantage of the 1.75 ounce/49 gram field of authentic Certain-Jell powdered pectin; see notes)
- Place the peaches and lemon juice into a big pot. At this level, I wish to take my potato masher and mash the peaches a bit.
- Measure the sugar right into a separate bowl and put aside. Stir the bundle of pectin into the peaches and add the butter.
- Stirring continuously, convey the peach combination to a full rolling boil (a boil that doesn’t cease effervescent when stirred), then add the sugar. Stir to totally incorporate.
- Return the combination to a full, rolling boil and boil for precisely 1 minute, stirring continuously.
- Take away the pot from the warmth.
- Skim any foam from the floor.
- Ladle rapidly into clear jars. (I like to make use of a large funnel.)
- Wipe the edges of the jars with a clear material.
- Place the heated lids (lids which have been positioned in simmering water for not less than a minute) on the jars and tighten the bands.
- Place the jars in a canner and course of (gently boil) for 10 minutes (water ought to cowl the jars by an inch or two–add boiling water, if essential), then take away the jars from the canner.
- Cool fully earlier than storing. Make sure all lids have sealed correctly earlier than storing. If the lid springs again when pressed within the center, it isn’t sealed and must be saved within the fridge.
- In the event you favor to skip the processing step, merely retailer your jam within the fridge or freeze.
- In the event you select a low sugar or liquid pectin, seek the advice of the instructions on the bundle as changes would must be made.
- Peach jam can take as much as two weeks to totally set – longer than strawberry and different kinds of jam. So, don’t be discouraged if the combination initially appears to be like soupier than you’d like. (That stated, it is nonetheless tremendous to get pleasure from straight away – and fairly scrumptious even when nonetheless a contact skinny!)