Heavenly Peachy Vanilla Freezer Jam Recipes

Steps:

• Wash, hull, and coarsely chop strawberries in a large glass, ceramic, or stainless steel bowl. Mash with a potato masher to a fine texture, 1 or 2 minutes. Add sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla bean paste. Stir well and let stand until berries have released some of their juice, about 30 minutes. Add pectin, 1 tablespoon at a time, stirring until well combined after each addition. Let stand 5 minutes to activate pectin.
• Spoon jam into clean, wide-mouth, half-pint jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace. Wipe rims clean with a damp paper towel. Loosely apply clean lids and set jars in freezer. Freeze completely, about 5 hours.
• Tighten lids. Store in freezer up to 1 year or in fridge up to 1 month.

Steps:

• Wash the oranges and lemons and slice thinly. Put them in a pot with just enough water to cover the fruit. Let it stand in the water overnight. Don't drain the water but cook them in it until they're soft. Wash and peal the remaining fruit. Add to the citrus mixture starting with the firmest fruit first. Cook a bit longer until all the fruit is tender. Measure the fruit and add equal amounts of sugar to the fruit. Boil it slowly until it's thick like a syrup. The jam with thicken more as it cools. Stir in quartered maraschino cherries for colour. Pour into hot sterilized jam jars and seal with the lid. The lids should pop on their own if the jars were hot prior to pouring the jam into them.

Steps:

• Combine peaches and sugar in a saucepan.
• Cover and let stand at least an hour to macerate (release juices), tossing once or twice.
• Cook over low heat until sugar dissolves and mixture darkens and turns clear, 25 to 30 minutes stirring as needed to keep from sticking (make sure you don't let it burn!) Add raspberries,continue cooking over low heat,stirring constantly, until mixture is thick, about 10 minutes.
• Stir in Chambord and remove from heat.
• Immediately pour into 2 hot sterilized 1 pint canning jars.
• Once jars are sealed, let them cool completely upside down on top of a clean kitchen towel, and store in the fridge (use up by 2 weeks) or in the freezer.

Steps:

• Peel, pit and chop peaches.
• In saucepan combine peaches,lemon juice, and pectin.
• Cook over high heat stir constantly about 5 minutes or until full rolling boil.
• Stir in sugar.
• Return to a full rolling boil.
• Boil hard for (1) minute stir constantly.
• Remove from heat and add vanilla extract and bourbon (bourbon is optional).
• Skim off foam.
• Ladle in hot sterilzed jars process in boiling bath 5 minutes.

Steps:

• Place pear in a food processor; pulse until finely chopped.
• Place pear, rind, juice, and vanilla bean in a large saucepan.
• Stir in pectin.
• Place pan over high heat; bring to a boil.
• Stir in sugar; cook 5 minutes or until sugar dissolves.
• Bring to a boil; cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat.
• Skim foam from surface; discard.
• Remove vanilla bean. Scrape seeds into pear mixture; discard bean.
• Stir 5 minutes to ensure fruit is suspended in jam.
• Cover and chill overnight.
• Refrigerate jam in airtight containers up to three weeks, or freeze up to six months.

Steps:

• Rinse clean plastic containers and lids with boiling water. Dry thoroughly.
• Peel and pit peaches. Finely chop or grind peaches. Measure exactly 3 cups prepared fruit into large bowl. Stir in sugar, lemon juice and vanilla paste. Let stand 10 min., stirring occasionally.
• Mix water and pectin in small saucepan. Bring to boil on high heat, stirring constantly. Cook and stir 1 min. Add to fruit mixture; stir 3 min. or until sugar is dissolved and no longer grainy. (A few sugar crystals may remain.)
• Fill all containers immediately to within 1/2 inch of tops. Wipe off top edges of containers; immediately cover with lids. Let stand at room temperature 24 hours. Jam is now ready to use. Store in refrigerator up to 3 weeks or freeze extra containers up to 1 year. Thaw in refrigerator before using.