Peach & Rum Jam

       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'!

The bottom middle peach looks like a heart

Sterilising the jars

Testing the pectin levels (and licking the spoon of course)

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.