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Fruit Jam
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Fruit Jam

Cut fruit cooked with sugar and lemon, sometimes with cinnamon and vanilla, until soft and the jam thickens; tested with a drop on a cold plate.

⏱ 39 min

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Put the fruit, sugar and lemon juice in a pot.
    Pot
  2. 2
    Bring to a boil, stirring.
    Stove
  3. 3
    Skim off the foam that rises at the start of cooking with a spoon.
  4. 4
    Turn down the heat and simmer 30–35 minutes, until the fruit softens.
    ⚙ SimmeringStove
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  5. 5
    Test the thickness: the jam is ready when a drop of it on a cold plate sets.
    💡The plate test: chill a small plate in the freezer ahead of time, drip a little jam onto it and wait half a minute. If the drop wrinkles when you push it with your finger, the jam is ready.
  6. 6
    Pour into clean, sterilized jars.
    Jar
  7. 7
    Keep in the fridge for up to a month.
    Refrigerator
708calories
2 gprotein
181 gcarbs
1 gfat
● protein 1%● carbs 98%● fat 1%

Per serving (411 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (less liquid, faster evaporation) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Wok (For quick cooking)
  • Jar · Also works: Storage container (None)

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⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Second fruit · Third fruit · Lemon juice · Cinnamon · Nutmeg · Cardamom · Cinnamon stick · Star anise · A pinch of salt · Water · Cooking after mashing (10) · Vanilla · Grated lemon zest · Lemon juice at the end of cooking · Pectin · Grated lemon zest from the start of cooking · Rose water · Vanilla bean · Cinnamon at the end of cooking · Almond extract · Turning the jars upside down (for a few minutes) · A whole lemon, sliced · Cooking the peels in water before the sugar (minutes) (20) · Salt at the end of cooking · Boiling the strips from cold water and draining (twice) · Cumin · onion · Raisins · Vinegar · Fresh ginger · Vanilla sugar
  • Cooking after the vanilla (minutes): 5
  • Cooking after the pectin (minutes): 5
  • Macerating time in sugar: about an hour
  • Fridge storage time: a month

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