CHERRY JAM Recipe
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Ingredients: 5 cups pitted cherries (I've used Costco frozen cherries - Organic Dark Sweet Cherries by Townsend Farms)
Juice of 1 lemon (2 tablespoons) I use the bottle lemon juice
2 cups sugar
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Directions:1) If working with pitted fruit should be roughly 5 cups pitted fruit. If they are frozen cherries cut them in half and then measure 5 cups.
2) Place the fruit in a heavy-bottomed jam pot along with lemon juice. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
3) Cook the cherry mixture, stirring continuously to avoid boil-overs, for about 20 minutes until the fruit has completely fallen apart.
4) Add sugar.
5) Continue cooking the jam until it reaches gel stage, about 25 to 30 more minutes.
6) Test for gel stage on a plate that's been placed in the freezer.
7) Turn off heat and ladle jam into prepared half-pint jars. De-bubble, wipe rims and adjust headspace to 1/4 inch. Process in a water bath canner for 10 minutes for a shelf stable jam. |
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Notes: I prefer using this method to make jam. You use less sugar, which causes the end product of jam made to be less. However, the plus side is you get the best cherry flavor in this recipe. So, better tasting jam, less sugar used, and NO PECTIN.
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