really old style living?

zarazara

mardatha wrote: »

A jam roll

LOL:j is that with custard?:D

mardatha

Awh TY kath. Well since this is a tiny village, I know everybody RAS, I have got lemon juice, and I added 2 dessertspoons to the blackberries. The jam came out nice and firm, not runny at all

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

Awh TY kath. Well since this is a tiny village, I know everybody RAS, I have got lemon juice, and I added 2 dessertspoons tot he blackberries. The jam came out nice and firm, nit runny at all

Blackcurrants have loads of pectin, so you will get a good set anyway.

Raspberries and strawberries have very little.

mardatha

O drat. And here's me thinking that for once I DID SOMETHING RIGHT ! lol ! ok better add some lemon juice then..

missychrissy

huxley wrote: »

Hi and thank you all for the brilliant information I pick up from here, although this thread and some of the other similar ones are very addictive! I'm getting a dab hand at the five minute sprint clean because I spend too much time reading:D If you have a Savers near you (like a superdrug) they are still doing sugar at 59p I am stocking up for blackberry jam making

Farmfoods are doing 2 kg of sugar for £1. Cheapest i've found it.

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

O drat. And here's me thinking that for once I DID SOMETHING RIGHT ! lol ! ok better add some lemon juice then..

mardatha

I have been helping make jam since I was eight, rather
a lot of years ( A Hmm) ago. As a teenage I used to put up a lot of spare fruit.

So I have a few decades of mistakes behind any "wisdom" and I still crash out every so often.

For me, understand why somethings work or do not - like which fruits are pectin rich and not - has reduced my foul-up quota.

Raspberry jam will be runnier but it is so good that it is worth it. Just do not try to make "supermarket" jam, and you will be fine. Also look for no-cook raspberry jam, although that only keeps two months.

ginnyknit

I just got 2 Kg of castor sugar from B&M for 1.29 ( i think) no good for jam but I buy its when its cheap so i can use it for cakes - Sil drinks lots of tea with sugar so we are always running out of granulated but he doesnt use my stash of caster sugar!

I have been trawling the neighbour hood looking for fruit bushes and tree's - going to put a notice up in church see if anyone wants their garden tidying up and will be paid in fruit!

mardatha

It came out firm and isnt runny. And no jam in this house ever lives more than 2 months anyway. I like jam on home made bread.
A lot

RAS

ginnyknit wrote: »

I just got 2 Kg of castor sugar from B&M for 1.29 ( i think) no good for jam but I buy its when its cheap so i can use it for cakes !

Absolutely fine for jam. For soemthign like uncooked raspberry, better then granulated as is dissolves quicker.

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

It came out firm and isnt runny. And no jam in this house ever lives more than 2 months anyway. I like jam on home made bread.
A lot

Good. HM is even nicer.

I recall putting 60 pounds up one summer and autumn in a shared house - worked out how much we eat each week and multipled. Do not think I paid for any of the fruit. How much would you need?