Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, gooseberry jam. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Remove blossom and stem ends from gooseberries. Return jam to a boil before transferring to a jar. Wipe rims of jars with a clean, damp cloth; cover tightly with sterilized lids and screw tops.
Gooseberry Jam is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Gooseberry Jam is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have gooseberry jam using 4 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gooseberry Jam:
- Make ready 1 kg Gooseberries
- Take 1 kg Granulated Sugar
- Take 400 ml Water
- Take Juice from half a lemon
Fresh gooseberries, sugar and pectin are cooked briefly to make a sweet-tart gooseberry jam. You'll never go back to store-bought jam! This is the most basic form of gooseberry jam; it can be enhanced with various different flavours depending on your taste. Elderflower and gooseberry go particularly well together and are in season at the same time - add fresh elderflowers when boiling the gooseberries or, if you can't find fresh, you could stir in a little elderflower cordial before bottling.
Steps to make Gooseberry Jam:
- Top and tail the gooseberries with a sharp knife 🔪
- Wash and weigh the gooseberries
- Put them in a large saucepan or a jam pan
- Put some small plates or saucers in the freezer.
- Sterilise your jam jars by washing with hot soapy water. Then dry in the oven at 120 Degrees C.
- Bring the gooseberries to the boil then simmer for 15 minutes until the fruit is soft and broken down… in any big bits remain give them a squash with a wooden spoon. Keep stirring so you don’t burn the bottom.
- Lower the heat and weigh the sugar. Add the sugar and stir… keep stirring until the sugar has fully dissolved and you can’t feel any crystals…
- Once the sugar has dissolved boil the jam hard for 10 minutes. If you have a thermometer keep it just above 100.
- Skim the surface to remove any impurities that will float to the surface.
- Grab one of your plates from the freezer and drip a little jam on it. If it is ready you should be able to tilt the plate and see the surface of the jam wrinkle. If not boil for another 5 minutes and test again until it sets.
- Pour the jam into your jars… Cover the surface of the jam with a wax disk and lid, or cover…
Fresh gooseberries, fruit pectin and sugar are cooked briefly then processed in a canner for scrumptious homemade jam. Gooseberry jam over crumpets and ice cream. Gooseberries are those adorable, hairy, green fruits that look like grape-sized, translucent watermelons, and taste like a sour cross between a kiwi and a strawberry. The berries have tiny, edible seeds inside that are the same color as the berry itself—so it. Use up a glut of seasonal gooseberries with our best ever recipes.
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