Mixed Berry Winter Jam Recipes

Steps:

• Combine fruit, sugar, and lemon juice in large bowl. Let stand at room temperature 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Put 2 saucers in freezer.
• In bottom of heavy large stockpot at least 3 inches deeper than height of jars, place metal rack or extra screw bands from canning jars to protect jars from direct heat. Fill pot with water, cover, and bring water to boil. Reduce heat to low. Wash jars, lids, and screw bands in hot soapy water; rinse well. Set screw bands on clean towel to dry. Place lids in small saucepan; cover with cold water and bring to simmer; turn off heat. Fill jars with very hot water.
• Transfer fruit mixture to large saucepan and bring to boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally. Mash to thick puree with potato masher. Reduce heat to medium and boil gently until mixture begins to thicken, stirring often, about 18 minutes.
• Remove saucepan from heat to test jam for gelling point. Drop 1 teaspoonful jam on chilled saucer and return to freezer 1 minute. Remove saucer and push edge of jam with fingertip. If jam has properly gelled, surface will gently wrinkle. If not, return saucepan to heat and cook jam a few minutes longer; repeat test.
• Drain hot water from jars and shake out excess water. Place jars on cutting board. Ladle hot jam into each jar, leaving 3/4-inch space at top. Slide flat plastic spatula between jam and jar to eliminate air bubbles. Clean rim of each jar with damp cloth. Using tongs, lift hot lids from saucepan, 1 at a time, shake dry, and place atop jars. Seal each with screw band, twisting to close but not too tightly. Return filled jars to pot of hot water.
• Add water to pot, if necessary, to cover jars by at least 1 inch. Cover pot and bring to boil; reduce heat and boil gently 10 minutes. Turn off heat. Wait 5 minutes; use tongs to remove jars without tilting. Place upright on towel; cool completely at room temperature. Jam will thicken as it cools.
• Check lids for seal by pressing each lightly. Lids of sealed jars will be concave and show no movement when pressed.

Steps:

• In a large pan, combine berries with sugar.
• Crush berries with a potato masher.
• Add lemon juice and lemon rind.
• Bring to a boil, skimming off any foam that forms.
• Cook at a full boil until jam thickens, approximately 30 minutes (jelling point is 221F).
• While the berries are cooking, sterilize your jars and heat the seals in a pan of hot water.
• Pour jam into hot jars; wipe rims, place seals and screw on bands fingertip-tight.
• Process in a boiling water bath for five minutes; remove to a protected countertop and let cool, undisturbed for 24 hours.
• If any of the lids have not sealed, either re-process or store in the refrigerator and use those jars first.

Steps:

• I used raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries.
• You can change the amount and type of berries you use as long as you keep the 1 to 1 ratio of fruit to sugar.
• Place thawed berries in the food processor. Using the stirring attachment instead of the blade, pulse to crush most of the fruit.
• Measure fruit and juice into an enamel or stainless steel pot and bring to a boil, stirring well. Add sugar and continue stirring to dissolve.
• Cook at a gentle boil. As mixture thickens you can crush the fruit if desired.
• Test for doneness by putting a bit on an icy cold saucer. Put the saucer back in the freezer for a minute. When you push at the side of the bit of jam and it wrinkles then it's ready.
• Remove from heat. Skim. Stir for a couple of minutes. Ladle into clean, hot, 1/2 pint jars. Leave 1/4 inch headroom Cap with canning lids and process in hjot water bath for 5 minutes boiling time.

Steps:

• Chop the frozen fruit from each bag into pea-sized chunks (you can mash the thawed fruit with a potato masher if you prefer larger fruit chunks in your jam - I don't, I like jam that has a chunky texture, but spreads easily).
• In a large pot, combine fruit and sugar.
• Bring mixture quickly over high heat to the gelling point (it actually takes quite a while, in excess of ten minutes - and stir constantly, or fruit will stick to the bottom and burn).
• After fruit has reached the gelling point (thick enough to slide, as one 'flake', from a cold spoon), remove from heat.
• Ladle into sterilized jars, apply seals and rings, and process for 15 minutes, with whole jars submerged at least 1-2 inches under boiling water.
• That's it! Six bags, six cups. Chop, mix, boil to the gelling point, fill jars, process, DONE, all in less than an hour.
• NOTE: the Ball Blue Book calls for 9 cups of "berries" (i.e., blackberries, young berries, dew berries, etc.,) - six 12 oz. bags of mixed berries yields slightly less, but approximately that much.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, toss strawberries with sugar. Let sit, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved, 1 hour. Add lemon juice and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring, until berries are soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Add raspberries and blueberries and cook over medium, 25 minutes. Transfer to a clean glass jar, secure lid, and let cool to room temperature.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Line a 9x13 inch metal cake pan with aluminum foil. Then crumple up a sheet of parchment paper into a ball. Unfold the parchment and place it into the bottom and up the sides of a 9x13 inch metal cake pan. Make sure there are no holes.
• Hull strawberries and cut in half.
• Add all the ingredients, except the vanilla, to the prepared pan and toss to combine.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the fruit is soft and the juices are thick and bubbly.
• Remove from the oven and add the vanilla extract.
• Carefully mash the fruit with a fork, making sure not to poke a hole in the parchment. Let cool.
• Pick up the parchment paper and use as a funnel to pour the jam into a mason jar or other sealed container.

Steps:

• Steralize and dry a glass jar with a lid(approx 350gms capacity).
• Wash and blend berries into. A smooth liquid using a blender.
• Keep sugar and fresh lemon juice ready for use before you start.
• Seive the liquid into a thick bottom cooking pot or pan to get rid of seeds if.
• Keep on medium flame to start the cooking process.Stir in the sugar and lemon juice into the liquid and mix well. Keep stirring occasionally.
• Check for sweetness and adjust accordingly. A frothy layer while cooking the jam is common and can be ignored.
• Check with a steel or wooden spoon if the jam is thick enough. Incase if runny, you need to cook further.
• Transfer the hot jam into the glass jar and close the lid tightly and allow it to rest in a cool and dry place till it's set.
• Ideally 350gms of jam can be easily obtained from a mix of berries amounting to 500 gms within 25 minutes.
• This jam can stay good for 6 months and can be stored out in a cool place, however storing it in a refrigerator is an option too.