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Relating to this recipe: There is nothing more wonderful in existence than ambling along quiet hedgerows within the New Forest picking fresh blackberries as the sun shines and also the wild birds sing. This recipe captures the best wild bounty that southern England provides. The great flavour of the jam on the cold winter morning, several weeks after being made, will warm your heart and transport you to your day it had been made. Escape to check out blackberries from May through November and overlap the blackberry picking with gathering some apple windfalls for that freshest ingredients for the wild jam.
Ingredients
Makes: 12 (340g) jars blackberry and apple jam
- 3.6kg blackberries
- 600ml water
- 1.35kg cooking apples - peeled, cored and sliced
- the juice of just one lemon
- 5kg to five.5kg granulated sugar
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Method
Prep: 20 min › Prepare: 1 hr 30 min › Additional time: 8 hr setting › Ready in: 9 hr 50 min
- Inside a saucepan, combine the blackberries with 200ml from the water and simmer gradually on the low heat for 1 hour 30 minutes before the blackberries are soft and mushy. Pass the blackberries via a sieve to get rid of the seeds, if preferred.
- Meanwhile, inside a saucepan, combine the apples with the rest of the water and also the fresh lemon juice. Simmer gradually on the low heat for 1 hour 30 minutes before the apples are soft and mushy. Pure having a hands-held liquidiser.
- Combine the blackberries and apples and weigh. Add 450g sugar for each 450g pulp and transfer to some preserving pan. Provide the boil and test for that setting point by putting a dollop from the jam onto a chilly plate and pushing it together with your finger. When the jam wrinkles it's ready.
- Transfer the jam into sterilised jam jars, cover immediately and then leave undisturbed overnight inside a awesome spot to set.
Fun fact
Lengthy ago it had been thought that recognizing the very first blackberry of year would banish warts.
How you can sterilise jars
Learn to sterilise jars two ways with this handy step-by-step guide and video .
This jam altered my existence. Just whenever you think existence has provided you everything and you are prepared to die, along comes this elegance by means of blackberry and apple jam. Truly amazing and galvanizing, my tastebuds were singing for several days, I even were able to catch tonsilitits purely in the fact my tastebuds were tingling from The First Day. I believed of ending everything, until I came across this jam. Good riddence to any or all. Yours sincerely, jamlord xxxxx - 10 Jun 2014