I have more questions than answers. I am hoping to find some berries to make an elderly friend a batch of jam for his birthday. It is his favorite thing in life!
Having just made a batch of strawberry rhubarb jam, I realized the cost due to the packages of Certo or Sure Jell that is necessary.
I notice that one of the recipes uses no additional pectin. Has anyone made it both ways and is the method without the additional pectin acceptable?
I just made the recipe with no pectin and when it failed to gel in a timely fashion I added tapioca pearls. I don’t know if the berries have natural pectin in them like some fruits do ie: Apricots but after the work of cleaning and de-stemming all of those tiny berries I didn’t want to chance wrecking a whole batch of my precious berries. I went back up to Figueroa Mountain tonight and picked some more berries and I may try again tomorrow but to be safe I do think I will be adding pectin esp. since many of the other recipes on the net call for added pectin.
Good luck, happy jamming!
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1 Linda M // Jun 26, 2008 at 6:06 am
I have more questions than answers. I am hoping to find some berries to make an elderly friend a batch of jam for his birthday. It is his favorite thing in life!
Having just made a batch of strawberry rhubarb jam, I realized the cost due to the packages of Certo or Sure Jell that is necessary.
I notice that one of the recipes uses no additional pectin. Has anyone made it both ways and is the method without the additional pectin acceptable?
2 Deborah Daily // Jul 4, 2008 at 5:22 am
I just made the recipe with no pectin and when it failed to gel in a timely fashion I added tapioca pearls. I don’t know if the berries have natural pectin in them like some fruits do ie: Apricots but after the work of cleaning and de-stemming all of those tiny berries I didn’t want to chance wrecking a whole batch of my precious berries. I went back up to Figueroa Mountain tonight and picked some more berries and I may try again tomorrow but to be safe I do think I will be adding pectin esp. since many of the other recipes on the net call for added pectin.
Good luck, happy jamming!
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