jam season: strawberry – rasberry or pineapple – lemon
Servings: 7 jam jars à 250 g for each jam
ingredients:
for the jam with raspberries:
- 250 g raspberries
- 1 organic lemon
- about 1000 g strawberries raw material - not cleaned nor trimmed
- 1000 g preserving sugar 1:1
for the jam with pineapple:
- 350 g pineapple trimmed & diced
- 1 organic lemon
- about 1000 g strawberries raw material - not cleaned or trimmed
- 1000 g preserving sugar 1:1
equipment:
- a pot of 6-7 l
- a blender
how to:
- Gather enough jam jars & clean them thoroughly w/ hot/boiling water & wipe them w/ a fresh & clean tea towel.
- Grate the lemon zest & press out the lemon juice.
for the jam with raspberries:
- Combine raspberries & lemon juice in a blender & blend for some seconds until all is pureed.
- Sieve the puree to filter the pits; discard the pits.
- Add lemon zest to the puree.
for the jam with pineapple:
- Combine 250 g of the pineapple pieces & the lemon juice in a blender & blend for some seconds until all is pureed. (You may also puree all of the pineapple.)
- Add remaining pineapple pieces (if there are any...) & lemon zest to the puree.
for both jams:
- Clean & trim the strawberries; cut them into halves or quarters.
- Add strawberries to the puree: you need 1000 g fruit mix. (It’s about 750 g resp. 650 g processed strawberries.)
- Add the preserving sugar & let the mix rest for about 2-3 hours.
- The sugar will liquefy the fruit mix.
- Heat the fruit mix to boiling & cook at least for 4 min.
- Fill the hot jam at once in the waiting jam jars, screw the lid on & turn upside down.
- Let the jam cool down.
Notes
Prep Time & Cook Time: the rest time of 2-3 hours is not included.
Prep Time: Allow 45 min for the jam with pineapple.
If you buy an ordinary pineapple (i. e. no baby pineapple nor a giant pineapple) you’ll get about 400 - 500g „fruit“ after having removed... So start w/ 1 pineapple, trim it, dice it & weigh 350 g pineapple fruit.
If you use 1000 g preserving sugar (type: 1:1) make sure that you prepare exactly 1000 g fruit mix.
If your jam jars are really neat & clean & you fill in the slightly off the boil jam & you screw the lid at once & turn the jam jars - the jam is fine for several months up to a year or even more. You need not store the jam jars in the fridge before opened.