Every Loquacious Idiosyncrasy Treated Equally - 11+ ELITE Thread

davemorton

All this talk of jam, this is a lovely recipe, takes NO cooking, and no hassle of sterilization (which on a side, I dont do the oven thing, I just put an inch of water in each jar, and slap them in the microwave for a few mins of boiling time.)

Strawberry Freezer Jam

1 ¼ lb. (550g) Strawberries
2 lb. (910g) Caster Sugar
3 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
½ bottle Certo

Normal jam making requires the fruit to be cooked both to release the natural pectin, to reduce the water content (fruit is 90% water), and provide keeping qualities. But cooking unavoidably changes the flavour - even the most expensive “preserves” don’t taste of fresh fruit. The advent of domestic freezers - and Certo - has changed all that. Freezer jam requires no boiling. The fruit is simply crushed with sugar, lemon juice and Certo, left to set and frozen. It tastes delicious - just like fresh strawberries ! (And it works just as well with raspberries too, by the way).

1. Crush the strawberries in a bowl, add the sugar and stir thoroughly.

2. Allow to stand in a warm place until the sugar has fully dissolved.

3. Add the Certo and stir well.

4. Add the lemon juice and stir for 2 minutes.

5. Ladle into small containers, cover them securely, and leave them to stand in a warm kitchen.

6. Check after a two or three hours to make sure that the set is progressing (some varieties of strawberry have a lower soluble sugar content which affects the set). If the set appears too thin, pour the jam back into the bowl, stir in one more tablespoonful of lemon juice and ladle back into small containers.

7. Leave for 24 - 48 hours to achieve a “soft” set (not stiff like ordinary i.e. boiled jam).

8. Label and freeze.

Notes:

Do not increase the weight of strawberries, as this will weaken the set.

Measure the Certo carefully - adding more will not improve the set.

Freezer jam is at its best for 6-8 months, but will keep in the freezer for at least a year.

Store in the refrigerator after defrosting.

You dont have to use Certo brand, but this is nicked from their site. Makes a really nice soft jam, tastes like the sort of strawberry jelly you get in strawberry cream tarts, mmmmm

Tinyshoes

Snap-ant wrote: »

Did my Food Bank stint today - I discovered that the word 'donate' puts people off as they think you want money from them...

So we invented many a phrase & managed to get 2 trolleys full in an hour

:A xx


Has anyone heard of Suspended coffees and soup, a community caf! I went in yesterday do them. I thought it was a brilliant idea so bought a couple.

http://www.suspendedcoffees.com/about-us/

marrbett

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Am I the only one who hasn't bought a sun today.

No Morries locally and I am still on my self imposed road trips ban, it's a shame my local got taken over by Waities.

I didn't either Tiny, for the same reason.
Shame we don't have any morries in this area, I'd like to pop in there as well as the others. Verwood is too far even for free fruit!!

mhoc

fairclaire wrote: »

Is that the one that had the shoe incident at the train station? if so, she'd be a welcome addition!! That did make me giggle :rotfl:

Yes, the very same, the one shoe child

She is so part if the Elite and she does not even know it - so every good attempts to save money and make the money she has stretch as far as she can.
And in between unexpected mad things happen

Tinyshoes

marrbett wrote: »

I didn't either Tiny, for the same reason.
Shame we don't have any morries in this area, I'd like to pop in there as well as the others. Verwood is too far even for free fruit!!

I am sooo glad you posted marrbett as I was beginning to think maybe it was not too far. :rotfl:

11 miles from me, is it further for you?

It would have been ok if I was brave enough to do loads of shops in one go ie one trip. Maybe we should have all done a joint road trip with Truffle Hunter, Dodo and Nictrinwyn.

fairclaire

davemorton wrote: »

All this talk of jam, this is a lovely recipe, takes NO cooking, and no hassle of sterilization (which on a side, I dont do the oven thing, I just put an inch of water in each jar, and slap them in the microwave for a few mins of boiling time.)

Strawberry Freezer Jam

1 ¼ lb. (550g) Strawberries
2 lb. (910g) Caster Sugar
3 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
½ bottle Certo

Normal jam making requires the fruit to be cooked both to release the natural pectin, to reduce the water content (fruit is 90% water), and provide keeping qualities. But cooking unavoidably changes the flavour - even the most expensive “preserves” don’t taste of fresh fruit. The advent of domestic freezers - and Certo - has changed all that. Freezer jam requires no boiling. The fruit is simply crushed with sugar, lemon juice and Certo, left to set and frozen. It tastes delicious - just like fresh strawberries ! (And it works just as well with raspberries too, by the way).

1. Crush the strawberries in a bowl, add the sugar and stir thoroughly.

2. Allow to stand in a warm place until the sugar has fully dissolved.

3. Add the Certo and stir well.

4. Add the lemon juice and stir for 2 minutes.

5. Ladle into small containers, cover them securely, and leave them to stand in a warm kitchen.

6. Check after a two or three hours to make sure that the set is progressing (some varieties of strawberry have a lower soluble sugar content which affects the set). If the set appears too thin, pour the jam back into the bowl, stir in one more tablespoonful of lemon juice and ladle back into small containers.

7. Leave for 24 - 48 hours to achieve a “soft” set (not stiff like ordinary i.e. boiled jam).

8. Label and freeze.

Notes:

Do not increase the weight of strawberries, as this will weaken the set.

Measure the Certo carefully - adding more will not improve the set.

Freezer jam is at its best for 6-8 months, but will keep in the freezer for at least a year.

Store in the refrigerator after defrosting.

You dont have to use Certo brand, but this is nicked from their site. Makes a really nice soft jam, tastes like the sort of strawberry jelly you get in strawberry cream tarts, mmmmm

You sound very knowledgable about this :cool:

Tinyshoes

zippydooda wrote: »

in my hunt for some more papers tonight, I popped in waities expecting them to have suns left as its a bit beneath their clientele. they were sold out. so I had my free coffee to takeaway. couldn't leave empty handed could I.

I don't expect the suns were sold out anywhere down here. :rotfl:

davemorton

fairclaire wrote: »

You sound very knowledgable about this :cool:

You missed the tart bit at the bottom

fairclaire

mhoc wrote: »

Yes, the very same, the one shoe child

She is so part if the Elite and she does not even know it - so every good attempts to save money and make the money she has stretch as far as she can.
And in between unexpected mad things happen

Oh on a total tangent.....MSL has Whiskas £1 CB for me today, as well as the £2 on CS/COS. It disappeared a couple of days ago, but it's back now. I know you are always on the lookout for cat food

Saversue

Decided to take Mum to Morrison's tonight.
She flatly refused to do multiple transactions and insisted on buying a few things with her fruit and veg, so as not to look suspicious :cool::o
Went in twice and had to walk round whole store each time for some unfathomable reason :rotfl:

Anyone tried the strawberries and found there not very sweet ? Glad I didn't pay much for them.