Jam making help for first timer

Scubabe

Okay, so I made it on Sunday, it's now Tuesday, can I open all the jars, whack it all into a pan, bring it back up to boil, add some lemon juice, and try to see if it will set?
If I can get a set, can I then re-sterilise all the jars and pour it back into the jars again?

I don't know if there is a time-limit on how long you have to rectify a problem...

Penelope_Penguin

Scubabe wrote: »

Okay, so I made it on Sunday, it's now Tuesday, can I open all the jars, whack it all into a pan, bring it back up to boil, add some lemon juice, and try to see if it will set?
If I can get a set, can I then re-sterilise all the jars and pour it back into the jars again?

I don't know if there is a time-limit on how long you have to rectify a problem...

Yes you can - with all that sugar in it, it'll keep for months

Penny. x

Scubabe

Thank you so much!!! I am such a newbie to *problems* with jam, it has always just worked perfectly for me before now!
Cheers!!
Ness

sandraroffey

back into the saucepan, up to the boil and add a bottle of certo. i made some rose hip and apple jelly last week and had to boil it so much to reach set point that i lost half my yield. and it still was a very soft set. certo next time for me too. could have had another three jars out of it. and whenever i make strawberry jam, i always use certo. the people who make certo have a label on the bottle that you send away for their own recipe book for jam making. free of course and its very good.

lainz

Hello

I made apple jam at the weekend - but didn't follow any particular recipe apart from the general one I'd used for previous yummy ones, anyway its too sweet (obviously the apples). It's all nicely set - can I get it out the jars, add more apples and redo it as it were?

Thanks

mardatha

How much fruit do you need to make jam ? I've never tried this before. We have small holdings 25 miles away who sell PYO straws and this year I fancied trying jam...:D

phizzimum

made strawberry jam at weekend with DD - we had 600g of strawberries and it made 3 jars. We would have had more fruit but we'd eaten loads!

mardatha

How much do you get in a normal punnet Phizz ?

phizzimum

we used plastic punnets and I think...they were 500g ones...but I'm really useless with measurements so that may be wrong. they also had larger cardboard ones and think they were 2 kg. they had a sign up at the PYO place saying how much the punnets held so it's worth checking before you start! especially if you're like me and spacially challenged...:o

Pink.

mardatha wrote: »

How much do you get in a normal punnet Phizz ?

The amount per punnet will depend on where you buy them and the size of the punnet but I buy them locally in punnets weighing 450g. I won't need to soon though because mine are just about ready! :j

When making jam I add the same amount of sugar as I do fruit.

Have you had a look through the The Complete Jam, Chutney and other Preserves collection

There's an earlier thread that should help so I'll add your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

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