Jam and bread, jam and bread, jam and bread!!!!!

Now that I started canning and attempted some jelly making, I decided I needed to make and can more jelly. I found a recipe for High Dumpsy Dearie (or something similar) Jam, and English fruit jam. It sounded easy and simple and so I decided I must try it....

The fruit: 2 pounds each of apple, pears and plums.


Then add zest and juice of 1 lemon. You are supposed to add 2 ounces of ginger root, but I didn't have any, so I added a good handful of crystallized ginger.

Then you let it juice and cook and boil.

The recipe calls for 4.5 POUNDS of sugar...I didn't want that much sugar, so I used 1.5 cups and 1 pkg of low sugar pectin instead. I'm a rebel.

Then I blended it up a bit. I probably should have waited to do this, let the sugar/pectin mixy up a bit with the cooking fruit and it's juices...but I didn't. Next time I will.

I let everything cook for over an hour, it was still runny and not very jammy, so I added about a 1/2C more sugar and another packet of pectin. In the end it was the consistency of thicker apple sauce.

I love the color...I nice golden hue...and when I tasted it!! OMG!!! It was very light and fruity with just a little ginger bite. DELISH!!!!

Rock out, jamming.

RECIPE:

2lbs Apples

2lbs Pears

2lbs Plum

1 lemon, juiced and zested

Ginger, to taste

4.5 lbs sugar (or be a rebel and use less sugar and some pectin)

Dump everything but the sugar into a pot and boil...add sugar....simmer, skim the sum, and when it's at the desired consistency, process in for 10min. Makes 9 1/2pints.