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Granulated sugar for Jam?

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  • JayJay14
    JayJay14 Posts: 1,918 Forumite
    Another here who has never used preserving sugar.

    I've even made strawberry jam with it without the lemon - don't have a problem with runny jam here.
  • powershopper
    powershopper Posts: 329 Forumite
    Never used 'preserving' sugar, but I sometimes think the jams are clearer and brighter, esp strawberry and the jellies, when I use cane sugar. I got a stock of Tate and Lyles gran sugar for ever so cheap at Netto.
  • zarazara
    zarazara Posts: 2,264 Forumite
    I ony ever use granulated. if it doesnt set i call it conserve.
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  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 12,532 Forumite
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    I always use granulated sugar for jams & marmalades except where pectin in the fruit is so low that even the addition of lemon juice won't always reliably get a good 'set'. In the vast majority of cases, granulated sugar is absolutely fine. My Nana was a really keen jam-maker & she would never have spent money on an additional ingredient. She used to shop around for the cheapest sugar in the neighbourhood & buy as many bags as she could get home in the basket of her old bicycle so that she had a good store put by for jam-making season.
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  • I want to make dried apricot jam. I want to use normal sugar not jam sugar will this be ok with lemon juice?
  • Chris25
    Chris25 Posts: 12,918 Forumite
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    edited 28 June 2012 at 8:31PM
    http://www.deliaonline.com/community/yourrecipes/preserves/Dried-Apricot-Preserve.html

    Delia uses granulated sugar & lemon juice for her dried apricot jam :)

    I think the difference between jam & prerserving sugar is that the jam one has added pectin whereas in the preserving sort, the crystals are less dense & designed to dissolve more quickly.
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