So popular, my Easy Blackberry & Apple Jam is simple to make, utterly delicious and made with no added pectin. It’s also uses just one pot unlike some recipes. Once you taste this amazing jam you’ll be foraging for blackberries every year just to make it!
I recently went out foraging for apples and blackberries locally and although the apples weren’t up to much the blackberries were fab if a little difficult to pick.
Long sleeves, trousers, socks and a stick are must haves if you don’t want to get scratched and stung and another time I would bring gardening gloves too.It took me over an hour to gather just 600 g as I think I’m not the only forager locally!
This weekend I went to a car boot sale at a local farm where I managed to pick the same amount in about 20 minutes so it really is about being in the right place at the right time.
I could have come home and made a blackberry and apple crumble or some such dessert but I didn’t want to put all my hard work to such a quick and frivolous use.
No, it had to be Blackberry & Apple or Bramble Jam to preserve the fruits of my labours so to speak.
If I’m honest I do think I’ve fallen in love with jam making and if you’ve not tried it yet then I can’t recommend it highly enough.
I haven’t had one disaster with jam making which I can’t say for many other areas of cooking!
I researched various recipes and found that most of them wanted the blackberries and apples cooked separately. After spending so long picking the fruit this seemed like an exercise I didn’t want to go through.
So I was pleased to then find a recipe in “The Classic 1000 Recipes” book (Foulsham) where the fruits were boiled in the same pan.
Hence I adapted this recipe and gave some flesh to the bones of the method to make my Easy Blackberry & Apple Jam!
My family loved this jam and even my pip hating husband did too.
I think it tasted all the better for having foraged the blackberries and we have enough jars to take us into the winter as I made 6 jars of varying sizes.
As usual just before you start jam making just wash your jars and lids in hot soapy water, fill with boiling water, empty and then pop in the oven for 20 mins at 140°C (120°C fan) and leave in there until your jam is ready.
Storage & Shelf Life
This Blackberry & Apple Jam should be kept in a cool, dark, dry place (I keep mine in a cupboard in my garage). It’s best eaten within the first 12 months but will be shelf stable for years.
Once open store in fridge and use a clean spoon to prolong shelf life. Will last for many months.
More blackberry & foraged fruit preserve recipes:
- Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam
- Blackberry & Apple Jelly
- Blackberry & Raspberry Jam
- Easy Blackberry Curd
- Tutti Frutti Jam
- Traditional Blackberry Jam
- Simple Elderberry Jam
I know you’ll love this Easy Blackberry & Apple Jam as much as I do. Don’t forget to tag @FabFood4All when you make it as I love seeing my recipes come to life!
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Easy Blackberry & Apple Jam
Ingredients
- 600 g Blackberries washed & drained
- 500 g Bramley apples peeled, cored and cut into berry sized chunks
- 1.1 kg Granulated sugar
- 300 ml Water
- 10 g Butter
Instructions
- Put the water and apple chunks in a preserving pan (or similar) and simmer gently until soft (about 5 mins).
- Add the blackberries, bring to the boil and simmer until soft (about 15 – 20 mins).
- Add the sugar off the heat stirring to dissolve the crystals.
- Heat the pan gently to ensure all the sugar dissolves, then boil rapidly for 10 mins stirring regularly.
- Take off the heat and test a large drop of jam on a chilled saucer and if it crinkles after a couple of mins it’s ready.
- If not boil for another 2 mins and repeat test until ready.
- Remove excess scum with a slotted spoon and then stir in the butter to remove the rest.
- Ladle into hot sterilised jars and screw lids on immediately.
- Makes 1.8 kg.
DANIELLE VEDMORE
You make it look so easy! Looks delicious! xoxo
Clare Webb
I love picking fresh blackberries and making jam with them! Not too sure about apple & blackberry though, I don’t like apples.
Nikki Hayes
I’ve never tried making jam but this recipe sounds surprisingly easy, will have to give it a go sometime ;o)
Paul Wilson
My blackberries aren’t quite ready yet, but I might give this a try in a few weeks.
Keep Calm and Fanny On
What a lovely post, really reminded me of picking berries with my gran for jam and jelly – bramble always was my favourite too! These look so lovely and fruity, gorgeous colour! Thanks…
Camilla
Thank you that’s lovely to hear. My husband wants me to make bramble jelly with the second batch of blackberries I picked but I’m not keen on sieving, it’s bad enough he won’t eat raspberries which I have to sieve to a coulis!
rozsarg
My Mum use to make this jam all the time, we use to have a very big Apple tree in our Garden and my mum would take us Blackberry picking it was delicious especially on warm buttered toast.
Camilla
I don’t remember having it before but do remember my mum picking blackberries as a kid and her falling onto the brambles on a local roundabout LOL!
Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand
Love this combination – so used to calling blackberries brambles in Scotland 😉 Well done for the foraging – looks like it was worth all the hard work in the end. Is it your favourite so far?
Camilla
I think my jam’s are becoming like children and each new one is lovely in a different, new and exciting way. Like the fruits themselves I couldn’t pick a favourite, I think it all comes down to what mood you are in as to which flavour you pick. The one thing I have learned is not to over do the set as we all prefer a soft set jam and the one I gave you could have done with a little less boiling!
Javelin Warrior
Bravo! I love that there’s no added extra pectin for setting the jam and it looks delicious. When I was a lot younger (grade school), I picked a lot of wild blackberries and raspberries that grew around the house I grew up. And it definitely was a tedious task to collect enough to do anything with!
Camilla
Thanks Mark, it is a tedious task when the fruit is thin on the bushes. I once picked raspberries in the summer holidays for money and would see raspberry bushes even when I’d shut my eyes!
Camilla
Do you know I looked at a really old fashioned recipe for bramble jelly as hubby doesn’t like seeds but was put off when the recipe said to put the fruit mixture through a “net” and I wasn’t sure if a sieve was Ok? So jam it was and he ate it anyway:-)
Jammy Bodger
Fab recipe, I’m just jealous you’ve been out foraging already.Re: the net, don’t bother a jelly bag and stand make jellies really simple to make and as you make them in 2 stages they don’t seem to take too much effort.
Camilla
I just read on old Jam Recipe Booklet I once got from the National Trust and it said to make jelly using net curtains, now there’s an idea LOL:-)
johanne
Hi Camilla,
Just made your jam but was wondering when it will be ready to eat.
Johanne
Camilla
As soon as it’s cool, so I often wait until the following day:-)
Becky Thorn
I do love blackberries, my most favourite soft fruit i think. Must make some of this jam, I usually just make bramble jelly.