Old-Fashioned Jams, Jellies, and Sweet Preserves: The Best Way to Grow, Preserve, and Bake with Small Fruit
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In this updated and full-color edition of Old-Fashioned Jams, Jellies, and Sweet Preserves, Jo Ann takes you back to the basics. This is a clear, concise horticultural and culinary reference book that concentrates on the small fruits, with a glance at tree fruits and wild fruits, too. It offers environmentally sound directions for growing and harvesting, as well as simple guidelines for canning and preserving. Moreover, it contains a treasure trove of seventy-five exciting recipes for preserving, baking, and cookingunusual marmalades, for example, are coupled with English muffins. From gooseberries and elderberries to classic strawberries and rhubarb, Jo Ann has it covered! Whether an old hand or a novice, you’ll find Old-Fashioned Jams, Jellies, and Sweet Preserves enlightening and informative, not to mention delicious!
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Old-Fashioned Jams, Jellies, and Sweet Preserves - Jo Ann Gardner
A Short Course in Fruit Preserving
Ireally didn’t know how to boil an egg when I got married in the early 1950s. I certainly knew nothing about fruit preserving. All our fruit products—and all our fruit, for that matter—came straight from the supermarket.
With a growing family and a limited income, however, I learned quickly. Necessity is a good teacher. My husband, Jigs, was the leader in the preserving operation because he had had some experience. It was not long, though, before I understood terms such as boiling-water bath and snap lids. By the time I was left in sole command, as a result of our expanded farming, I had to contend with a large fruit garden and no help at all.
Not only that. As a full partner in the farm, I spent as much if not more time in the field as in the kitchen. At the height of our fruit season, I could be found making square tonloads of hay on our horse-drawn wagon.
Under such conditions, I streamlined our fruit preserving, the benefits of which I pass on to you. The technology I use remains, with few exceptions, simple, a testimony to the truth I learned some time ago: there is no correlation between using high technology and producing high quality. In fact, technology often gets in the way.
Equipment
When making jam, jelly, or sass, use a 2-gallon (8-L) wide-mouth stainless steel pot. The wide mouth allows for fast evaporation, which makes for quick-setting products. Stainless-steel pots also cook evenly, so they are worth the extra expense. Large wide-mouth enamel preserving pots are good for making preserves, juices, and cooking fruit for drying, all of which call for large batches. Tin or copper pots are not recommended because they discolor and flavor fruit products; aluminum pots are too thin. Other necessities for fruit preserving are a large enamel water-bath canner which comes with a rack and a tight-fitting cover, or a steam canner; 1-qt (1-L), 1-pt (500-mL), and 1/2-pt (250-mL) canning jars and small jelly jars with matching snap lids and screw bands; cheesecloth for a jelly bag, or a steam juicer. Note: old-timers were the great recyclers, using any jar that will take new snap lids and old screw bands, and re-using vacuum-sealed jars. But this practice, like others (sealing with hot paraffin, sealing jams, jellies, syrups, etc. without processing), is not regarded as safe. Other utensils include wooden spoons, a small metal spoon, a potato masher, wooden stamper, or chopper (I use an old-fashioned egg chopper) for preparing fruit for jam-making, a jar lifter and kitchen tongs, large screens, trays, and cookie sheets, a long-handled ladle and fork, a food mill, and a wide-mouth funnel.
Terms and Methods
Do not be intimidated by these terms and the descriptions of methods. Considering they provide you with the key to mastering home fruit preserving, they are worth reading carefully.
BOILING-WATER BATH A method of processing homemade fruit products in a water-bath canner so that they do not spoil, that is, become moldy or ferment. It is now recommended that all homemade fruit products should be processed in a boiling-water bath. Before processing, seal filled canning jars with snap lids and screw bands. Be sure to wipe the sealing edge of the jar to remove any debris that might cause an imperfect seal, then set the snap lid in place, and screw on the metal band, tightening it all the way.
Always process a full load of jars at a time, using water-filled jars to fill the empty spaces. Place bottled-and-sealed fruits on a rack and then lower the rack into the water-bath canner, partly filled with hot water. Add extra water as necessary, to bring the water level to 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 cm) above the tops of the jars. Also make sure that there is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) of space between the jars to allow the water to circulate. Cover the pot and bring the water to a rolling boil. Count the processing time from this moment. At the end of the processing time, wait 5 minutes before removing cover. Lift the jars out of the water with a jar lifter and cool them on a rack or towel in a draft-free place.
Check canning jars in 12 to 24 hours after processing to make sure they are vacuum sealed. After processing, as the jars are cooling, the lids will be sucked down and become concave and will snap, making a vacuum seal. If the lids fail to snap, they will remain convex, and these preserves should be reprocessed or refrigerated and used immediately. After 24 hours, the screw bands can be removed and