Components:
4 cups calmly crushed peaches
2/3 cup blueberries, calmly crushed
3 tablespoons prompt pectin*
2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons bottled lemon juice
3 tablespoons chiffonade lemon verbena**
Instructions:
Evenly sprinkle the underside of the Ball Jam Maker with the pectin. Spoon the fruit in a comparatively even layer over the pectin. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Press the jam button. You’ll hear a beep at 4 minutes. Sprinkle the sugar and lemon verbena over the fruit combination whereas the machine continues to be working. Cowl and watch for the jam cycle to finish. Press the cancel button and unplug the machine.
If not utilizing a Ball Jam Maker, make the jam on the stovetop utilizing the standard methodology as seen on this recipe.
Ladle the jam into ready jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Course of within the scorching water tub for 10 minutes. I used my electrical canner which takes the identical period of time as processing on the range however with out heating up the home.
Yield: about 5 8-oz jars
*I like to recommend these jars of flex batch pectin. 3 tablespoons equals 1/2 of a pouch of boxed pectin.
** I used my herb scissors and reduce from the leaf straight into the sugar.
Be aware: A terrific supply for canning data is the Blue E book information to preserving. I extremely advocate it for studying tips on how to can. Here’s a bunch of different canning books and tools I discover helpful.
My ideas:
The beautiful individuals on the Washington State Fruit Fee and the masterminds behind Candy Preservation supplied to ship me some stone fruit once more this 12 months and I used to be excited when it arrived it and it had each peaches (my husband’s favourite) and nectarines (my favourite). Peaches make me itchy once I deal with them however Matt shortly peeled and cubed them for me so I might make this jam with ease. And what ease it was! I used my Ball Jam Maker and the electrical canner I purchased as a gift to myself final summer time and it was great. Residing in an outdated home in Baltimore Metropolis with no air con and canning is a sweaty depressing expertise. Now I used to be in a position to make two sorts of jam and course of 12 jars with out heating up the home in any respect. Thank goodness for contemporary expertise. I’m all for corning my very own beef and making my very own mustard or no matter however canning in late July could be a grueling expertise the quaint method.
This jam combines two of my favourite summer time fruits and one in every of my favourite herbs from our backyard. It truly is summer time in a jar! The lemon verbena provides a shiny citrus observe that tempers the candy peach and the blueberry provides not solely coloration however a berry fullness to the jar. It’s beautiful now however I can’t wait to open a jar through the darkish days of winter for just a little cheer.
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