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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #45 on: September 11, 2010, 10:27:23 am »
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #46 on: October 03, 2010, 02:39:26 am »
 :) i made mulberry jam again yesterday. my 2 trees are loaded at the moment.
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #47 on: October 03, 2010, 04:17:12 am »
A stranger gave me 2 kilos of kumquats so I used 1 kilo for jam and the other I pulped skins and all. The jam is yummy and I don't know yet what I will do with the pulp in the freezer.

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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #48 on: October 03, 2010, 06:43:47 am »
How about some fruity wine or spirit Gretchen  ;D ;D ;) ;) ;) :-* :-*
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #49 on: October 03, 2010, 08:08:17 am »
Why not. Gert's Kumquat Vodka. Ok I'll do it as soon as my son and family visit. Arriving tomorrow for a week of Vegan eating. So looking forward to that.

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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #50 on: October 03, 2010, 08:16:39 am »
This is my favourite way of making jam - so quick (8 minutes) and you don't have to use heaps of sugar.  Sometimes I use honey, sometimes Rapadura.  Recipe here.
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #51 on: October 03, 2010, 11:08:32 am »
Thanks for that Jo. I'm needing to make some more jam soon so I'll definitely give it a try.
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #52 on: October 04, 2010, 09:58:05 am »
the last lot of jam i made used 1kg of strawberries and is nearly inedible, it's so sour :(
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #53 on: October 04, 2010, 10:09:46 am »
How annoying - guess it depends on the fruit.  Can't you redo it with some more sweetener?
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #54 on: October 04, 2010, 10:33:04 am »
I would just put it back in the thermomix with some sugar for about 10 minutes and see what happens. Shame to waste it. I am sure it will be fine.

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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #55 on: October 04, 2010, 10:42:06 am »
i'm sure i'd actually put in more sugar than usual! (i usually do 50% of the fruit weight in sugar eg: 1kg fruit, 500g sugar. but i'm sure i did more like 700g or so. i made it a few weeks ago so i'm not sure i could recook?
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #56 on: October 04, 2010, 11:07:01 am »
You can recook it any time.   I usually use 3/4 volume of sugar to fruit.   You can even add it to another lot of berry jam.

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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #57 on: October 04, 2010, 10:54:11 pm »
Good grief brazen. How did it come out so sour? Amazing for strawberries. Maybe just use it with ice cream as a sauce. Strawberry daiquiri? Strange one.


Or you could just dump it and forgetabboutit :D :D :D
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #58 on: October 15, 2010, 09:04:55 am »
Nice one Quirky Jo.  Like the new Avatar, new look blog - good work.  :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Re: Anyone successfully made a nice jam?
« Reply #59 on: October 15, 2010, 09:18:20 am »
Thanks Thermomixer  :-* :-* :-*
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