Jam making help for first timer

zippychick

ive merged this with our jam first timer thread. Glad it worked out for you

Zip

kerri_gt

hi all, I'm hoping you can help me here. I made Super Jam with cranberries and raspberries today. Boiled for the correct amount of time etc and the jam wasn't setting, so added a bottle of pectin as the recipe suggest. Reboiled and it's still not setting, I even added a bit of sugar to see if that would help. It's now cooling in jars but I'm sure it won't set - is there anything I can do to rescue it?

Valli

kerri_gt wrote: »

hi all, I'm hoping you can help me here. I made Super Jam with cranberries and raspberries today. Boiled for the correct amount of time etc and the jam wasn't setting, so added a bottle of pectin as the recipe suggest. Reboiled and it's still not setting, I even added a bit of sugar to see if that would help. It's now cooling in jars but I'm sure it won't set - is there anything I can do to rescue it?

What's super jam?

forget it; I've googled it now.

Sorry I cannot help - never made jam without sugar.

torbrex

yupyupyup wrote: »

Hello,

Would be grateful if any of you could let me know what the going rate is for a 12oz jam jar and lid. 45p to 60p seems to be the range I have found, but was wondering if any of you buy them for much cheaper than that?

I know I can reuse jars that I have bought full of food, but my query is for bigger batches when I need to buy new ones.

Thanks!

I get my jars from Freegle

Caterina

I get jars given by friends, would never pay for a jam jar, there are plenty of them around which people give happily away.

A while ago I bought a few kilner-type jars, the ones with the rubber seal, for pickles and fermented veg, from IKEA, the large ones were around £2, but now I have them they will last me a long time, I hope.

kerri_gt

yupyupyup wrote: »

Hello,

Would be grateful if any of you could let me know what the going rate is for a 12oz jam jar and lid. 45p to 60p seems to be the range I have found, but was wondering if any of you buy them for much cheaper than that?

I know I can reuse jars that I have bought full of food, but my query is for bigger batches when I need to buy new ones.

Thanks!

I would definitely put a request on Freecycle, or a local Facebook group. Lots of people are often getting rid of jars and not all councils collect glass recycling so folks are often glad of people coming to collect them.