Homemade jam recipe for first timer? (also pickling)?!
Homemade jam recipe for first timer? (also pickling)?
i've purchased the jars from the supermarket, and i want to know where to get some good recipes for making homemade jam and preserves before the farm markets start getting all the really good fruits in. i know some fruits have less pectin and have to have it added to set properly. what are good fruits to start with? is there a website that has really good recipes.
also, i want to try pickling some veggies this summer. any suggestions?
Answers:
The USDA (US Dept of Agriculture) has a canning website that is administered by the University of Georgia... Check out these two websites - loads of info on canning/pickling and recipes.
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html...
http://foodsafety.cas.psu.edu/canninggui...
My absolute favorite homemade jam is the freezer strawberry jam that you can make with Sure Jell or Certo. Check at your local supermarket for either of these and see which one has the recipe for the freezer strawberry jam. It is easy to make and you store it in the freezer and it stays very bright red as opposed to dark red when you make strawberry preserves or jam the traditional (cooked and water bath way). The freezer jam also tastes so fresh, unlike the traditional jam tastes. I believe you can also make this freezer jam with fresh peaches as well. Once you make this kind of jam you will never make it the old way. The old way using the "water bath" to seal the jars cooks the jam even more than it already has been cooked before you put it into the jars. Cooking the fruit just does not do anything for it but it does allow you to store the jam in a cupboard instead of a freezer. After opening either kind, you still have to refrigerate. The freezer jam will taste much better than the other kind plus it is much better than store-bought. Store-bought is more like the old fashioned kind of homemade jam...they're both cooked and sealed for long shelf life at room temps. Try the freezer jam. You'll never make the other kind and this is also great for gifts. Make it this summer while the berries are in season, freeze it and give it as gifts during the fall. It's like fresh fruit in the winter. Have fun!!! (you might go to the website for Sure Jell or Certo....I am sure they would have the recipes for the freezer jam)
Boxes of SureJel have amount of ingredients and directions for making lots of different fruit jams and jellies. Strawberry preserves are easy to make. Also peach preserves and grape jelly. Just follow the directions on the long sheet of paper inside the box and you'll have yummy homemade jam. I've had good success with "reduced sugar" SureJel as well. Good luck.
hi little,
i love the food network web site and all recipes. making your own jam is alot of work (and fun if you have help). pickling is easier but both is very rewarding and homemade goodies make great gifts.
have fun
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now the pickles
check your local deli's and sandwich shops for their large 1 gal jars,.
Remember if your cooking for other people CLEAN clean clean.and check the local health dept. you may need a license and be subject to inspections.
In Walmart, next to their canning supplies is a book put out by Ball (the company that makes the canning jars). It's called the Blue Book of Canning and it contains a lot of recipes for different kind of jams, including freezer jams and lots of recipes for different kinds of pickles, relishes and pickled vegetables. I like the dilled green beans and I also like their recipe for pickled onions, they are great on hamburgers! Good Luck.
Sure you can go on the net and find recipes just type in recipes for pickled vegetables........ but let me tell you I have found some wonderful recipes in recipe book but out by church groups, school groups etc........... you know they put in there best recipes.