Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hedgerow jam. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A family favourite that uses autumn fruits from the hedgerow and garden. Hedgerow jam can be made with any combination of autumn fruits, such as blackberries, sloes and elderberries. METHOD Place everything into a heavy bottomed saucepan and bring to a simmer. Store in a clean sterilised jar and cover the top with a round of parchment paper and a good fitting lid.
Hedgerow jam is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Hedgerow jam is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hedgerow jam using 4 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Hedgerow jam:
- Get 1 kg apples - I'm lucky enough to have several trees growing along the field where i pick my other fruits and i use the eating apples in the jam and cooking apples for pies and crumbles
- Prepare 500 grams mixed fruit/berries (blackberries, elderberries, damson and wild plums in mine but you can also do sloes and rosehips or any Hedgerow fruit that grows locally to you or you could buy at your greengrocer if you can't get anywhere to pick your own)
- Prepare 1 kg sugar - you can use jam sugar but with this quantity of apples there should be enough pectin for setting
- Take 100 ml water
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Instructions to make Hedgerow jam:
- Place a saucer in the freezer
- Chop up apples and place in a large saucepan or preserving pan- for true Hedgerow jam remove stalks but nothing else all the goodness is in the peel and core - I chop mine into 8 chunky pieces (I also freeze all of my fruit on the day it's picked ready for jam making another day)
- Add all of the other fruit and the water
- Bring up to the boil, then turn down the heat to a gentle simmer and leave for around 30 minutes until most of the fruit has pulped
- Use a hand blender to pulp the jam further and to ensure Apple skins are well incorporated - if you don't have a hand blender you could use your food processor or a potato masher/ricer, but make sure you let it cool first
- Now add the sugar and stir until it has all dissolved. Bring up to a rolling boil. Do not have heat any higher than it has to go. Once it comes to the boil start lowering the heat until it just maintains a boil. If you try to boil it too fast it will burn to the bottom of saucepan and the burnt sugar taste will go right through the whole batch :(
- How long do you boil it for? Every batch can be different so anywhere between 8 and 28 minutes and all times outside those parameters! It will be dependent upon what heat source you use, how big is the saucepan and what is it made of, what fruits did you use in what ratio. Also, how many times you stirred to stop it sticking, what brand of sugar you use, and is your water soft or hard!
- This is where the saucer comes in. After 8-10 minutes remove your saucer from the freezer and drop a teaspoon of jam on it. Pop it back in the freezer for 1 minute. When you take it back out use your little finger and very gently using the lightest touch, drag your finger along the top of the jam. If it wrinkles up it has reached setting point if it doesn't continue for another 5 minutes and repeat the procedure. My mix took 21 minutes to reach setting point.
- Turn off the heat but give it a good stir as the heat keeps it bubbling for a while and it can still burn
- Ladle into your jars, but be careful as the jam is so hot it WILL remove skin. This quantity should make 5-6 lb jars. I put a circle of parchment into the top of each jar and smooth down to remove air bubbles. Don't put lids on until it is cold. Fancy labels and a square of festive cloth makes a cheap and cheerful gift for a friend :)
Wild Side aboard the Jam Butty. About Wild Side Wild Side is a small artisan preserve business making and selling high quality Jams, Marmalades, Chutneys and Vinegars as we travel around England's inland waterways. I have been making preserves for presents and for my family for many years. I see there is a market for high quality and unusual handmade pre-serves. The medieval fruit , "the Medlar" symbolises my inspiration.
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