This weekend had such beautiful weather for picking our harvest and making Jam. Usually, when the fruit is ready, it's too hot to really have fun in the kitchen, but this was perfect weather! We picked tomatoes, cabbage, plums, corn and blackberries, and I don't have pictures of the last two, because we ate them before I got my camera out - oops!
These are little Italian plums - very sweet and tasty!!!
Blackberries are the most fragile, so the first thing I made was a batch of blackberry jam. But there were more berries, just not enough for a full batch of cooked jam, so I decided to make a batch of freezer jam (first time for that), and it is totally yummy, way more of a fresh fruit flavor!
And still there were more... but not enough for a batch, so I decided to use the remaining crushed berries to plums and make a combination recipe. Even though there was less than a cup of blackberries in the batch, it has lots of blackberry flavor in it!
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It sure is pleasing to stock up on fresh preserves-so worth the work and you will appreciate it especially this winter!
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