Making cheap jam?

lemonade_money

Can anyone help me with a recipe for making cheap jam please? I'm not sure if this has already been posted (it probably has) but I can't find it!

Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section

Many thanks.

LM

Uniscots97

This help? This is my recipe I'd posted somewhere else:-


The cheapest place to buy raspberries is usually Asda, Tesco or Lidl. You can use frozen ones (this works out the cheapest option of all, 99p for 1kg in most supermarkets), but you must defrost them thoroughly before placing in the oven.



Ingredients:-

250g raspberries
250g caster sugar (if you don't have caster sugar, use normal sugar and put it through a blender to make the grain size finer)
A clean empty glass jar with lid (minimum size 300ml)


Method:


Preheat your oven to Gas Mark 4 (about 180C). Put all the raspberries into a large lasagne dish. Trust me the large area of the dish and the fruit spread out helps them cook more evenly. Place the dish in the oven for around 20 minutes. Then remove the dish and carefully stir the sugar into the fruit (which should resemble molten goo at this stage). Once all the sugar is stirred in, spoon the 'jam' into the clean jar. Once you have filled the jar, put the lid on and leave the jam to cool for 1-2 hours. Once cooled place the jar in the fridge. This jam will keep for between 7-10 days. For larger quantities of jam just multiply the quantities above accordinlgy. This jam is delicious on hot toast or scones.
This recipe can be used to make any 'berry' fruit jam. Raspberry and Bramble is a nice variation.

seraphina

I use Nigella Lawson's pink grapefruit marmalade, which is really easy and reasonably cheap. In her Domestic Goddess book, she has a whole bunch of easy and reasonably priced jam recipes. They're all possible to make with a small amount of fruit as well.

Basically the marmalade one is as below:

Take three pink grapefruits and simmer whole in water until soft (about an hour, IIRC). Finely shred the grapefruits and remove pips. Place in a large saucepan, as large as possible, add 1kg preserving sugar and heat until the sugar dissolves. Let bubble away for around half an hour, and then blob some on a saucer that's been kept in the freezer. If it wrinkles when you poke it with your finger, it's ready. Pour into presterilised jars, seal and cool.

I get 2lbs of marmalade out of this.

lemonade_money

Thanks to you both, very helpful.

Next I just have to find some jam jars! :rotfl:

LM

mirakl

There's a few threads on cheap jam jars if you use the search function.

The cheapest jars I could find were pretty wasteful as I had to buy jars of value pickled beetroot out of Asda and dump the contents!