Ka-BOOM!!! Strawbs right out of the freezer. As you may recall, we harvested ten kilo’s of these last season. I had no pantry room for the whole lot, so ww did a huge batch then and now I am down to one pot…so my Bride suggested that we make more jam on this rainy day. I said that I was all-in. Oh jongens…I so enjoy blueberry jam, on and in things. Perhaps you noticed that not all the blueberries are blue. Well mates, don’t be fooled; they really are a blueberry. They are called, ‘Pink Lemonade’. They taste the same as blue blueberries, but are a tad sweeter. The blues above were fresh out of the freezer and this pic shows them on the scales after thawing overnight: The thing with the ‘Pink Lemonades’ is that if one makes jam with just them, the jam is a very un-appetising greyish-brown colour. I mean, the taste is wonderful, but the appearance sort of puts one off. This is why I combine the two when making jam— the pinky ones take on the bluish pigment of their blue cousins and, voilà, I am chuffed. 100 percent. This was three kilos and I have thirteen pots.
Wow, those look like cranberries! Very smart combining the two colors for your jam. How long will 13 jars last?
Well done Sjoerd, i haven't made blueberry jam but i used to make plum jam before they had fully ripened, they were green and the jam would be a brown colour so i would put blackberries in just for the colour.
When I lived in Germany I made Johannesberre jelly. I had the white, pink and purple Johannesberre bushes in my back yard. Boy, I miss those berries.
Netty— yes they do. Mate, I don’t know how long they will last, it depends on how many I will give away. I still have a couple of kilos in the freezer. I really like it in yoghurt. Loggie—I do that with other things, such as combining chioggia beetroot and any otherred ones. The chioggia beetroot cook up brownish. Not so attractive. Annie— perhaps you ought to plant some, if you can find them there. The current bush is known there isn’t it?
@Sjoerd I don't have enough chill hours to get berries on black currants and even if they did survive our heat and humidity they get a terrible rust problem when grown here. I have to stick with blackberries, but they're good !! Not complaining, really. I can still buy black currant jelly.
