These are the ingredients (recipe from Waitrose website):
1.8 kg Elder berries.
about 500 g sugar
2 lemons
140 mls water
Instructions:
Pick the Elderberries:
Wash the berries and de-stalk them: (Use a fork, it is easier, although they tend to ping off around the kitchen.)
Put the berries in a pan and crush to release some juice:
Boil the berries:
Strain in a muslin cloth (or a handy pillowcase) overnight:
Measure your juice, add the juice of 2 lemons:
Weigh an appropriate amount of sugar:
Add sugar to juice and boil:
When it reaches setting point, put into hot jam jars: (Only 3 and a half full!)
When cooled, eat! (I look worried but actually it tastes quite nice.)
Best title so far I believe...
ReplyDeleteI would like a jar of that jam please x
Title and pictures are awesome steph! What does it actually taste like though? Is it sour?
ReplyDeleteNo, not sour. But the berries themselves are. It is a little tangy I guess. It does have almost equal amounts of sugar and elderberry juice in it though! Not the best jam for a low-sugar diet perhaps...
ReplyDeleteRichie made some more. I haven't compared the two jams yet - but this means there are enough jars to give you guys some :o) (sorry not you Rose..)