Greg's Farm House Low Sugar Black Currant Jam
Category: Recipes for Jams, Jellies, and Sauces Recipe:
You don°t require a farm house kitchen with this recipe. It°s simple, fast and in around an hour you°ll seem like you°ve been making homemade preserves your entire existence. You°ll have wonderful homemade jam for your and yourself family and also the best last second gift ever. There°s nothing beats a present you've made yourself from fruit grown around the farm and on top of that, it°s the best jam you sampled.
Unlike many soft fruits, Black Currants have great pectin and thus don°t have to add any processed pectin. This can be a low sugar recipe when compared with most however i think it is the perfect balance.
5 cups (1 quart) of Greg°s farm fresh frozen* Black Currants.
4 cups sugar
1/4 cup pure fresh lemon juice
2 cups good tasting water
Makes roughly 6 x 8 oz jars
(For big batches, It's my job to triple this recipe. Any multiple works)
- Convey a small plate within the freezer*
- Lightly rinse the Black Currants and take away the stems (a couple of are no problem, they°re all edible and a few say great for the skin).
- Place fruit inside a heavy saucepan with 2 glasses of water. Make certain pan is several inches much deeper compared to fruit water mixture to match some foaming.
- Bring gradually to boil, uncovered, stirring to interrupt lower fruit right into a pulp.
Prepare for ten minutes or until soft. - Turn lower heat to low and add some sugar and fresh lemon juice. Stir before the sugar is dissolved.
- If preferred, give a teaspoon of butter (not margarine) to curtail foaming.
- Raise heat support and produce to some full moving boil, stirring frequently.
- Boil hard, uncovered, for ten minutes.
- Remove from heat, test for jam stage.* Prepare longer as needed and test again.
- Allow the jam stand a few minutes, skimming off any foam with large metal spoon and stirring from time to time to include any floating fruit.
- Pour into hot sterilized jars as well as heat seal (See below).
- Run clean mason jars or preserving jelly jars with the rinse cycle from the dishwasher or fill with boiling water and hang aside. Dry before use.
*Jam stage:
Method 1- Go ahead and take plate from the freezer. Pour a little volume of jam (about 1/8 teaspoon) to the cold plate and chill it within the freezer for around thirty seconds. When the test jam is firm to touch and it has the feel you would like for the batch of jam, then it's done. Remove from heat.
Method 2-Make use of a chocolate thermometer and prepare to 220° F / 104° C
Proper way of safe, lengthy lasting preserves:
- Only use jars and covers that are equipped for preserving for example Ball or Mason.
- Run clean jars with the rinse cycle from the dishwasher or fill with boiling water and hang aside. Dry before use. If jars are now being reused, run them via a complete cycle from the dishwasher first. Don't reuse the interior dome covers.
- Immerse the dome covers into simmering water (180° F) based on the package directions. Have them hot until use.
- Fill the new dry jars, individually, using the finished jam or preserves. Affordable wide mouth funnels can be found where most canning supplies or kitchen products are offered making the procedure a great deal simpler and fewer untidy. A large spoon is essential without or with the funnel.
- Clean the rim from the jar completely having a moist cloth.
- Immediately convey a hot dome lid to the filled jar.
- Firmly (although not with super strength) screw lower a dome lid ring to the filled and lidded jar.
- Let your jars to awesome. You°ll hear the dome covers popping lower because they awesome. After they°re cooled, press lower on each one of the dome covers. Everything stay lower or happen to be lower are correctly sealed.
- Reheat and check out again or refrigerate any jars of jam that didn't seal correctly.
- Take away the dome lid rings. Wipe the jars clean having a warm moist cloth, and keep jam inside a awesome dark place until available.
- Refrigerate after opening.
- I enjoy tie on the square of thin fabric with a few rattan for that perfect gift.
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