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Posted: Tue May 31, 05 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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Judith wrote: |
My one and only attempt at making strawberry jam turned out like boiled sweets . The thought of wasting several more pounds of strawberries is just too painful to contemplate. |
Judith, here's some useful tricks...
Put the fruit in the pan, weigh the pan. Add a little water.
Stew down to a pulp, let it cool a little, and weigh it. Add enough water so you have your starting weight back.
Toss in the sugar, use a jam sugar, and get it hot, fast. Faster the better. Add also a bif nob of butter and lemon juice.
Test setting when it approaches 104C, do so on a saucer you've got in the freezer. Bottle when it's JUST hardening, when it's JUST forming a skin; that'll be at about 104C.
If you've got enough pectin in it and a wee bit of acid, you'll get it to go without the boiled sweet problem. |
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judith
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