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.
Gilla01
I’m of the age group (now I’m feeling old) that has made home made jam. It definitely tastes far superior to bought, and is quite easy to make. I’ve never made Blackberry and Apple, perhaps I should get my pans out again………
Camilla
Oh do, what I love about home made jam is the different combinations of flavours you just can’t buy off the shelf too:-) And yes it is so easy, I really want more people to try jam making:-)
Cheryl
Thank you so very much for this recipie. My son and I have just made our 1st ever batch of jam and it has turned out amazingly. It also Tastes very nice too. The blackberries were from my garden and the apples were kindly given to me. Thanks again x.
Camilla
Aah, thank you for telling me – I’m so glad you both enjoyed it, it’s one of my favourites:-)
Cheryl
Thank you so very much for this recipie. My son and I have just made our 1st ever batch of jam with this recipie. It has turned out and tatstes lovely. The blackberries were hand picked from my garden and the apples were given to me. I will be keeping some of it for myself and the rest will be given for Christmas presents. Thanks again x
Camilla
I’m so glad you both enjoyed it, thank you for telling me:-)
Tracy Nixon
Mmm yummy! I love jam – so do the kids – so might have a stab at this recipe! Thanks!
Camilla
I hope you do it’s really good:-)
Irene Wright
my Mums Raspberry jam was ‘to die for’ and I have never tasted anything like it since shed died 16 years ago.
Camilla
Funnily enough my mother was telling me about her sister’s Raspberry Jam using her own raspberries and said that her’s was the best she’d ever tasted! I asked a professional jam maker recently what her favourite flavour was and she said Raspberry which was the first one she ever made! Note to self: next year pick some raspberries and make Raspberry Jam ooh I’ve got a bee in my bonnet now LOL:-)
Alison Hueck
Do you have to use cooking apples, or will eating apples work?
Camilla
I think dessert apples would be too firm where as Bramleys are more porous which is better suited to jam.
Elizabeth
We used to do a lot of blackberry picking as children in Canada. Oh the wasp stings! wasps love blackberries too! Your jam sounds lovely! I spent £40 on some posh jam making stuffs at a local shop the other day and so I really ought to get cracking and make some jam! (and you have the longest Captcha EVER!)
Ursula Hunt
Bumper harvest this year so will try to make this, first time at making jam
rosie
I’m hoping to make this tonight as it’s the easiest apple jam recipe I’ve seen. I also made some plum jam and everybody LOVES it. We have 9 more jars to get through and by the looks of it, they won’t last long!! It’s such a thrill making jam and seeing the end results being enjoyed over breakfast.
Happy Jamming!!
Camilla
Enjoy, jam making is so fabulous:-)
Ann
We are just back from bramble picking so I looked up the net for a recipe with apples in it. Saw your recipe, off now to pick some apples from the trees in the garden to put in with the blackberries. I have never made bramble jam with apples it is usually bramble jelly I make so this will be a first for me, so fingers crossed and thank you for the recipe.
Camilla
And I’ve never made any form of jelly which I’m sure my husband would love as he’s not a fan of pips but has had to get used to them LOL. Do hope you enjoy the jam:-)
cobweblil
Looks delicious