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Wild Plum Jam can go on breakfast toast, biscuits, you name it.
Ingredients
- 4 pounds pitted wild plums
- 1/2 cup water
- 7-1/2 cups sugar
- 1 package liquid pectin
Directions
- In large, heavy-bottomed cooking pan, combine pitted plums and water.
- Bring to boil; reduce heat and simmer for at least 5 minutes, stirring and crushing plums. Hit them with the immersion blender if you haven’t previously chopped them.
- Add sugar and mix thoroughly.
- Bring mixture to full boil over high heat, to the point where it cannot be stirred down.
- Quickly add liquid pectin. Continue stirring and boiling hard for 1 minute. (Use the timer; don’t guess.)
- Remove from heat and skim off foam, if necessary.
- Fill sterilized and prepared canning jars, and process in water bath for 10 minutes (adjusting for altitude as necessary).
Try this Wild Plum Jam recipe, and you won’t be disappointed.
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If you don’t want to pull large hunks of plum skin out of your jam, you can either finely chop the plums in the beginning or blitz the mix with a handheld immersion blender when they’re cooked.
NOTE: This recipe produced 7 half-pint jars, with nearly a full extra pint that I just put in the refrigerator for our immediate use instead of processing in the water bath. The bonus jam is a good way to test it to make sure it’s perfect before giving it out as gifts!
