Red Currant As Well As Raspberry Jam

It's been gloomy, rainy as well as chilly all week; fall is correct to a greater extent than or less the corner here inward Alaska; that besides agency it is berry picking time!!

Today I whipped upwardly a batch of ruby-red currant - raspberry jam which is picky-picky husbands all fourth dimension favorite. Lucky for us, these berries grow inward the woods to a greater extent than or less our identify as well as I've been using them to brand this jam for over 35 years now.  Hubby likes this recipe then much that HE picks the berries without me holler for him to!!
The ruby-red currants actually brighten upwardly the raspberries as well as the combination is but delicious (and gorgeous)!!

3 cups of crushed red currants (measure afterward crushing)
3/4 loving cup water
four cups raspberries (frozen berries are OK)
vii cups granulated sugar
1/2 loving cup liquid pectin (I purpose Certo)

Crush the ruby-red currants (I purpose a white patato masher) as well as mensurate 3 cups into a heavy pan. Add 3/4 loving cup of H2O as well as boil for 10 minutes.  Strain the mixture amongst a sieve as well as supply the juice to the pan (throw away the solids)

Add the raspberries and saccharide to the currant juice as well as choose to a difficult rolling boil (one that tin dismiss non hold upwardly stirred down); boil for ane amount infinitesimal min exactly (stirring constantly).

Remove from estrus as well as stir inward liquid pectin until good mixed; skim off whatever pinkish foam (throw the foam away). 

Pour the hot jam into construct clean as well as sterilized jam jars, wipe the rims construct clean amongst a clean wet
towel and position on the lids. Process inward a hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes.

Makes 8 cups of jam


A NOTE  ABOUT  RED  CURRANTS
In the woods to a greater extent than or less our house, nosotros cause got raspberries, ruby-red currants as well as high bush cranberries. My foremost jelly making "adventure" (a meg years ago) involved high bush cranberries (they grow inward profusion to a greater extent than or less hither as well as they are a lot of fun to pick).
Thinking that I had striking the "berry woman nurture lode", I was so proud of my huge harvest. It wasn't until I started cooking them that I realized they weren't ruby-red currants (high bush cranberries odor similar dingy gym socks when you lot gear upwardly them). 

 A lot of people DO consume high bush cranberries, but they commonly mix them with other fruit to assistance mask the rigid "sock taste".  Let's just tell I didn't brand that error again, lol !!

So..... for my immature Alaskan friends who are kickoff to brand jam, don't make that same mistake. This is what a high bush cranberry looks like:

A ruby-red currant is real different... they await similar this:

NOTE: It is ever a race between us and the birds for these ruby-red gems. If I hold off until they are ALL ripe, the birds commonly win, then I alternative as well as freeze....pick as well as freeze, until I cause got plenty for a batch of jam (these berries freeze VERY well).

NOTE: This recipe uses a liquid pectin called CERTO. I'm guessing that a powdered pectin would operate well, but I've never tried it amongst this recipe. It takes 1½ pouches of liquid pectin (1½ pouches = 1/2 cup). If you lot purpose the powdered pectin, brand certain you lot follow the cooking instructions on the box.

NOTE: If you've never processed jam inward a hot H2O bathroom (it is super simple), instruct to this spider web site for some specific instructions:   http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/waterbath-canning-highacid-foods.html

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Saucisses De Toulouse Aux Lentilles Du Puy Et Courge

Image
Ingredients: ane tablespoon butter ane tablespoon olive oil ane lb saucisses de Toulouse(French Garlic sausages*) four cloves garlic, minced ane onion, diced ii crookneck squash ane stem celery, diced ane shallot, minced ane bay leaf ane teaspoon bounding main salt ½ teaspoon freshly reason dark pepper ane 1/3 loving cup du Puy lentils four cups chicken stock Directions: Heat crude oil in addition to butter inwards a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the vegetables. Sauté until the mash starts to soften in addition to the onions are translucent, well-nigh 5-10 minutes. Add the bay leaf, salt, pepper, lentils, in addition to stock. Cover in addition to simmer for well-nigh forty minutes or until the lentils are soft. Meanwhile, grill, broil or sauté the sausage until fully cooked. Serve the sausage on a bed of warm lentils. *I used these Toulouse Garlic sausages. My thoughts: Excuse my French if the championship is incorrect! I'm relying on high
Read more

Indian Tacos

Image
Ingredients: for the taco meat 1 lb the world bison 1 onion, diced three cloves garlic, minced fifteen oz pinto beans, drained 10 oz canned diced tomato plant amongst greenish chile iv oz canned fire-roasted diced Hatch greenish chiles 1 tablespoon hot Mexican-style chili powder ii teaspoons minced fresh basil 1 1/2 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon the world jalapeno for the tyke bread ii cups water ii packages dry out yeast iv tablespoons butter ii tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt v 1/2 cups flour to serve: shredded abrupt cheddar shredded iceburg lettuce diced tomatoes optional: sour cream too avocado Directions: for the tyke bread: Whisk the flour too yeast togehter inwards a large bowl. Place the sugar, salt, H2O too butter inwards a modest sauce pan too rut until almost boiling. Allow to cool slightly. Pour over the flour too yeast too mix amongst a dough claw until a smooth, non also mucilaginous ball of dough forms. If the dough is real sticky, slo
Read more

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Image
Ingredients: topping: 1/3 loving cup butter 1/3 loving cup night chocolate-brown sugar 1 tablespoon dark rum 1 tablespoon lite corn syrup 20 oz canned pineapple rings inward 100% pineapple juice, drain as well as reserve juice for batter maraschino cherries* cake: 1 1/2 cups flour** 1 loving cup sugar 1/3 loving cup butter, at room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla paste ii eggs, at room temperature ii tablespoons dark rum 1/2 loving cup pineapple juice (from canned pineapple rings) 1 teaspoon cardamom ii teaspoons baking powder pinch bounding main salt Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Butter or spray (with cooking spray amongst flour) a 9-10 inch springform pan***. Arrange pineapple rings on the bottom of the pan. Add a maraschino cherry to the centre of each ring. Set aside. In a pocket-size saucepan, melt as well as stir together butter, chocolate-brown sugar, rum as well as corn syrup. Cook over depression rut nearly v minutes or until it thickens s
Read more