Spiced Blackberry and British Plum Jam
Yesterday I walked for about 4 hours to look for a suitable place around East Brighton Park to pick some blackberries...A lot of efforts to walk there, but only managed to find about a handful of the ripen and reasonable size berries. Maybe too early to have any fruit or too late that everyone before me has already picked all the decent one!
With less than 300g of blackberries, one can hardly make any decent amount of jam, so I decided maybe it is OK to mix these wild British summer berries with some cultivated British plums! So it is not too confusing a jam - authentic taste of the Britishness!
I mixed 300g of blackberries with 500g of British plums. Both have a sharp and sour note..Perfect together. I prefer using less sugar in jam, so the flavour of the fruits will be retained rather just a sweet sugary jam. (The jam might be a bit runny, but I think that is OK!)
Ingredients:
Firstly, put all fruits (washed and dried) and all ingredients (except sugar) in a pot, and slowly simmer them until soft and juicy. Then add the sugar and turn to higher heat and bring the juice to the boil and thicken the mixture. Test the mixture with a very cold saucer (put it in the freezer compartment), if the jam mixture wrinkle when push with the finger, the jam mixture if ready to be potted and sealed.
I can't wait to try this jam with some home-made fresh scones. I will keep these jam to share it with my friend visiting from Malaysia this coming October - a little authentic taste of the Britishness for him!
With less than 300g of blackberries, one can hardly make any decent amount of jam, so I decided maybe it is OK to mix these wild British summer berries with some cultivated British plums! So it is not too confusing a jam - authentic taste of the Britishness!
I mixed 300g of blackberries with 500g of British plums. Both have a sharp and sour note..Perfect together. I prefer using less sugar in jam, so the flavour of the fruits will be retained rather just a sweet sugary jam. (The jam might be a bit runny, but I think that is OK!)
Ingredients:
- 300g Blackberries
- 500g British plums
- 1/2 of lemon juice
- 1 stick of cinnamon
- Few Juniper berries
- 2 Star anise
- 2-3 cup of sugar (depending on your taste)
Firstly, put all fruits (washed and dried) and all ingredients (except sugar) in a pot, and slowly simmer them until soft and juicy. Then add the sugar and turn to higher heat and bring the juice to the boil and thicken the mixture. Test the mixture with a very cold saucer (put it in the freezer compartment), if the jam mixture wrinkle when push with the finger, the jam mixture if ready to be potted and sealed.
I can't wait to try this jam with some home-made fresh scones. I will keep these jam to share it with my friend visiting from Malaysia this coming October - a little authentic taste of the Britishness for him!
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