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.
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Plum Jelly with Powdered Pectin
With powdered pectin
- Makes: About 7 or 8 x 250 mL jars
- Keeps: Best quality within a year once processed in a canner. Refrigerator spreads keep about a month in the fridge.
- Crops: Plum
The full recipe is for members on a paid plan: 3 ingredients, 14 steps, process times for each altitude, in Australian units.
Please read. Keeping times are for best quality and come from published home preserving guidelines. They are a guide, not a guarantee. They only hold for a tested recipe followed to the letter, jars that sealed properly, and storage that is cool, dark and dry, or a freezer at minus 18°C. Look at, and smell, every jar and bag before you eat from it. When in doubt, throw it out.
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.