Red Currant In Addition To Raspberry Jam

It's been gloomy, rainy in addition to chilly all week; fall is correct some the corner here inward Alaska; that every bit good agency it is berry picking time!!

Today I whipped upwards a batch of cerise currant - raspberry jam which is picky-picky husbands all fourth dimension favorite. Lucky for us, these berries grow inward the woods some our identify in addition to I've been using them to brand this jam for over 35 years now. Hubby likes this recipe then much that HE picks the berries without me bespeak him to!!

The cerise currants actually brighten upwards the raspberries in addition to the combination is just delicious (and gorgeous)!!

3 cups of crushed red currants (measure later crushing)
3/4 loving cup water
iv cups raspberries (frozen berries are OK)
vii cups granulated sugar
1/2 loving cup liquid pectin (I purpose Certo)

Crush the cerise currants (I purpose a Irish Gaelic patato masher) in addition to mensurate 3 cups into a heavy pan. Add 3/4 loving cup of H2O in addition to boil for 10 minutes. Strain the mixture alongside a sieve in addition to provide the juice to the pan (throw away the solids)

Add the raspberries and saccharide to the currant juice in addition to choose to a difficult rolling boil (one that tin non last stirred down); boil for 1 amount infinitesimal min exactly (stirring constantly).

Remove from oestrus in addition to stir inward liquid pectin until good mixed; skim off whatever pinkish foam (throw the foam away).

Pour the hot jam into construct clean in addition to sterilized jam jars, wipe the rims construct clean alongside a clean wet
towel and position on the lids. Process inward a hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes.

Makes 8 cups of jam

A NOTE ABOUT RED CURRANTS

In the woods some our house, nosotros conduct keep raspberries, cerise currants in addition to high bush cranberries. My maiden of all jelly making "adventure" (a 1000000 years ago) involved high bush cranberries (they grow inward profusion some hither in addition to they are a lot of fun to pick).

Thinking that I had hitting the "berry woman nurture lode", I was so proud of my huge harvest. It wasn't until I started cooking them that I realized they weren't cerise currants (high bush cranberries odour similar muddied gym socks when you lot gear upwards them).

A lot of people DO swallow high bush cranberries, but they commonly mix them with other fruit to help mask the rigid "sock taste". Let's just tell I didn't brand that error again, lol !!

So..... for my immature Alaskan friends who are get-go to brand jam, don't make that same mistake. This is what a high bush cranberry looks like:

A cerise currant is real different... they await similar this:

NOTE: It is ever a race between us and the birds for these cerise gems. If I hold off until they are ALL ripe, the birds commonly win, then I selection in addition to freeze....pick in addition to freeze, until I conduct keep plenty for a batch of jam (these berries freeze VERY well).

NOTE: This recipe uses a liquid pectin called CERTO. I'm guessing that a powdered pectin would run well, but I've never tried it alongside this recipe. It takes 1½ pouches of liquid pectin (1½ pouches = 1/2 cup). If you lot purpose the powdered pectin, brand certain you lot follow the cooking instructions on the box.

NOTE: If you've never processed jam inward a hot H2O bathroom (it is super simple), become to this spider web site for some specific instructions: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/waterbath-canning-highacid-foods.html