freezing fruit for jam making?

Grimbal

DH, niece #1 & I are going fruit picking (raspberries & blackcurrants) today & wondered if it's possible to freeze fruit to make jam later on. Does it affect the pectin content & mean that it may be a bit more tricky to set?



TIA

Liz
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PollyFlinders_3

We nearly always use frozen fruit to make jam. I think I read somewhere that freezing can affect pectin levels, but we've found that as long as we have some lemon juice to hand when we get down to jam making, we don't have any problems with setting. We made raspberry jam in December last year and it was absolutely fine. I've just made some red gooseberry and blackcurrant using blackcurrants frozen last June, and it set first time too. Good luck.