I love orange marmalade. My next fave is the Strawberry Jam. Haven't tried the black currant but it sounds right up my alley. Around these parts it's all about Apple Butter right now....I do not care for it, but I used to make tons of it for our facility fund raisers. I seriously got donations of bushels of apples and spent days making that stuff. Sold like crazy.None of the above. I got hooked on blackcurrent jam and orange marmalade in Ireland. The former is hard to find here in the US, the latter more readily available but not nearly as good as in Ireland and the UK.
I never would have thought of you as the jelly maker. I learn a lot about you guys with these crazy questions! lolI make my own jams. I have 4 blackberry plants, 4 blackcurrant bushes, about 100 strawberry plants, and 3 apple trees, but are too young to be productive yet.
You need the apple mixed with the blackberry or blackcurrant otherwise it will be too strong. Usually make about 30 jars of each each year which is more than enough for ourselves each year but makes good gifts.
Strawberry and rhubarb works well too.
Also make beer, cider and wines various. Works out less than 30p a bottle of beer and £1 a bottle of vino.
The jams are much better quality than shop bought stuff, and is something like 200g of fruit per 100g product as it is fully reduced - like it's supposed to be.
At the moment the Strawberry is the best as it just tastes fresh.
Rowan, do you do that up as a jam? I really, really enjoy Strawberry-rhubarb pie. I bet I’d eat up your jam.Strawberry and rhubarb works well too.
I’m an orange marmalade kinda guy too. Strawberry is very close second though. I’m also a big apricot jam fan though few restaurants carry it - a small jar is in my fridge now.