Make jam from your fresh harvest

What You Will Learn?

• Hello dear friends, what a beautiful, beautiful day! Welcome to class. Today we are going to make jam from fresh fruits..
• In my backyard, we have apricot, peach, plum, fig and citrus trees. They fill our life with freshness and sweet memories. Years of planting and harvesting, I learned the nature of each individual plant. Here, I would like to share my family recipe for making jams. Hope that brings joy to your life..
• This recipe is proportional. You may make more or less of them, but with the right ratio, you will not fail..
• Ingredients:.
• 5 pounds of ripe golden plum, cut to chunky pieces and discard the stones,.
• 1/4 liters of lemon juice,.
• 5 pounds of sugar,.
• 1 teaspoon of pectin, .
• ½ teaspoon of sea salt.
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• I understand this quantity might not be too much, here is the ratio I would suggest:.
• To safely preserve the jam for a long time (up to a few years), use at least the same weight of sugar as of the fruits. .
• Pectin may differ in its strength, check with the manufacturer’s manual to verify. .
• Cooking:.
• In a large pot, mix cut plum and ⅘ of all the prepared sugar and salt to heat up. It takes about 5 minutes for the sugar to completely dissolve.  Once the plum starts to float, remove the pot from the fire and put it in a safe place (I put it in my sink), use a hand blender to mix the fruits until the soup is homogeneously combined. Bring the soup to boil then slow down, add lemon juice, then pectin and sugar mixture . Keep stirring the fruit and sugar is well incorporated.  .
• Boil your canning bottles to disinfect. Bottle plum jam almost to the rim. A well sealed  jam lasts for years..
• Spread onto cookies, mix with yogurt  or bake fruit cake.  Enjoy anyway you please..
• Sweet life!.