Last week Jacob bought about 20 peaches, and then we decided to spend four days away from home and came back to a house that smelt like peaches. Kind of nice, but it was also a reminder to hurry up and eat them or something! I found a recipe for nectarine and rum jam which said you could use peaches instead, so this morning was a jam makin' mornin'!
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The bottom middle peach looks like a heart |
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Sterilising the jars |
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Testing the pectin levels (and licking the spoon of course)
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Taste testing finished product
The recipe was super easy, and you can use most fruit.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups of peaches, peeled & chopped
- 25g of Pectin powder
- 5 cups of sugar
- 1/4 cup of rum (or 2 tsp of vanilla extract)
Method:
- Place chopped peaches into a large pot with the pectin. Stir until the fruit cooks down a little.
- Add sugar and continuously stir until sugar has dissolved (i added about 1/4 cup of water here as my fruit wasn't breaking down too easily
- Bring to the boil & it will get thicker and more jam-like. Add rum.
- Sterilise your jars while the jam cooks
- Once the fruit has broken down more and it looks more like jam, take off the heat and once the jars are ready, they can be filled.
I very much used my own method for this, just waiting until it looked right to me, and my jam turned out great.
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