Jams, jellies and marmalades
Summer fruit, spread on winter toast
When the plums, mulberries or strawberries all come on in the same fortnight, a jam pan is the best friend you have. Jams, jellies, marmalades and fruit butters, with pectin and without, all set and seal in a boiling water canner. Every recipe here is tested, and the process times are worked out for your altitude.
Tested recipes only, in Australian units.
The recipes
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- Apple ConserveAbout 6 or 7 x 250 mL jars
- Apple Jelly without PectinAbout 4 or 5 x 250 mL jars
- Apple MarmaladeAbout 6 or 7 x 250 mL jars
- Apple Preserves with PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Apricot Jam without PectinAbout 10 x 250 mL jars
- Berry Jam (Uncooked)About 5 or 6 x 250 mL jars
- Berry Jams without PectinAbout 7 or 8 x 250 mL jars
- Blackberry Jam with PectinAbout 11 or 12 x 250 mL jars
- Blackberry Jelly with Liquid PectinAbout 8 or 9 x 250 mL jars
- Blackberry Jelly with Powdered PectinAbout 5 or 6 x 250 mL jars
- Blackberry Jelly without PectinAbout 4 or 5 x 250 mL jars
- Blueberry-Currant Jam without PectinAbout 4 x 250 mL jars
- Blueberry-Peach Jam (Spiced) without PectinAbout 6 or 7 x 250 mL jars
- Blueberry-Spice Jam with PectinAbout 5 x 250 mL jars
- Butia Palm Fruit JellyAbout 8 x 250 mL jars
- Cherry Jam with PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Cherry Jelly with Liquid PectinAbout 8 x 250 mL jars
- Cherry Jelly with Powdered PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Citrus MarmaladeAbout 3 or 4 x 250 mL jars
- Corncob Jelly with PectinAbout 4 x 250 mL jars
- Crabapple Jelly without PectinAbout 5 or 6 x 250 mL jars
- Cranberry ConserveAbout 4 x 250 mL jars
- Cranberry MarmaladeAbout 10 or 11 x 250 mL jars
- Damson Plum Jam without PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Damson Plum-Orange ConserveAbout 8 or 9 x 250 mL jars
- Fig Jam without PectinAbout 10 x 250 mL jars
- Fig-Strawberry Preserves with GelatinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Golden Capsicum JellyAbout 5 x 250 mL jars Caution:
- Grape Jam without PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Grape Jelly with Liquid PectinAbout 8 or 9 x 250 mL jars
- Grape Jelly with Powdered PectinAbout 8 or 9 x 250 mL jars
- Grape-Plum Jelly with PectinAbout 10 x 250 mL jars
- Loquat Jelly without PectinAbout 4 or 5 x 250 mL jars
- Mayhaw Chilli Jelly with PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Mayhaw Jelly with PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Mayhaw Jelly without PectinAbout 2 x 250 mL jars
- Mint Jelly II with PectinAbout 3 or 4 x 250 mL jars
- Mint Jelly with PectinAbout 3 or 4 x 250 mL jars
- Mixed Fruit Jelly with PectinAbout 9 or 10 x 250 mL jars
- Mulberry Jelly with Liquid PectinAbout 8 x 250 mL jars
- Mulberry Jelly with Powdered PectinAbout 6-7 x 250 mL jars
- Muscadine or Scuppernong Jelly without Pectin3 or 4 x 250 mL jars
- Orange Jelly (Spiced) with PectinAbout 4 x 250 mL jars
- Orange Jelly from Frozen Concentrated Juice with Pectin5 or 6 x 250 mL jars
- Orange MarmaladeAbout 7 or 8 x 250 mL jars
- Peach Jam with PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Peach-Orange MarmaladeAbout 6 or 7 x 250 mL jars
- Pear PreservesAbout 5 x 250 mL jars
- Plum ConserveAbout 10 x 250 mL jars
- Plum Jam with PectinAbout 9 x 250 mL jars
- Plum Jam without PectinAbout 8 x 250 mL jars
- Plum Jelly with Liquid PectinAbout 7 or 8 x 250 mL jars
- Plum Jelly with Powdered PectinAbout 7 or 8 x 250 mL jars
- Plum Jelly without PectinAbout 8 or 9 x 250 mL jars
- Plum PreservesAbout 5 x 250 mL jars
- Quince Jelly without PectinAbout 4 x 250 mL jars
- Reduced-Sugar Peach-Pineapple Spread5 to 6 x 250 mL jars
- Reduced-Sugar Refrigerated Apple Spread4 x 250 mL jarsFridge only
- Refrigerator Apple Jelly with Liquid Sweetener4 x 250 mL jarsFridge only
- Refrigerator Grape Jelly with Liquid Sweetener3 x 250 mL jarsFridge only
- Refrigerator Jelly with SweetenerAbout 4 x 250 mL jarsFridge only
- Strawberry Jam with PectinAbout 9 or 10 x 250 mL jars
- Strawberry Jelly with Liquid PectinAbout 8 or 9 x 250 mL jars
- Strawberry Jelly with Powdered PectinAbout 5 or 6 x 250 mL jars
- Strawberry PreservesAbout 4 x 250 mL jars
- Strawberry-Kiwi Jam with PectinAbout 6 x 250 mL jars
- Strawberry-Rhubarb Jelly with PectinAbout 7 x 250 mL jars
- Testing Jelly without Added Pectin
- Tomato Jam (Spiced) with PectinAbout 5 x 250 mL jars
- Tomato MarmaladeAbout 9 x 250 mL jars
- Tutti-Frutti JamAbout 6 or 7 x 250 mL jars
Mixed produce and general guidance 5
Before you start
How we keep this safe
- Tested recipes only. Every recipe here comes from published home preserving guidelines. We do not invent preserving recipes, because a guess in a jar can make you sick.
- Follow the recipe to the letter. The amounts, the jar sizes and the times are part of what makes it safe, not a suggestion.
- Sugar is part of the recipe. It helps the set and the keeping. Only cut it in a recipe written as a reduced sugar recipe.
- Spreads marked “fridge only” are not processed for the pantry. They live in the fridge from day one.
- Australian units. mL, grams, millimetres and degrees Celsius. The conversion is ours. A tablespoon in these recipes is 15 mL, not the 20 mL Australian tablespoon.
- When in doubt, throw it out. A bulging lid, a broken seal, a smell or mould means the bin, not a taste test.