Aww, that’s so wonderful to hear Irene, thank you so much:-)

We love Bramble Jelly and eat it with lamb. It used to be readily, commercially available in the UK but isn’t now.
I’ve made my own in the past, but found it hard work and this year the blackberries were over almost as soon as they’d flowered.
I’d found a small bag, that I’d gathered before they all shrivelled, at the bottom of the freezer and used your recipe.
Thank you, thank you, thank you….
Made overnight finished today.
I will always be using your recipes!

I skip the pot and stew and strain overnight by one simple step using a steam juicer it creates your clear juice ready for sugar and leaves the pulverised fruit in the top pot which I then freeze and eventually make into fruit leather or fruit roll-ups which can be a sweet kick when I’m craving a snack. It also means you have a concentrated juice of whatever fruit it is to jar up and seal for use all year even after harvest season. I live on a non-working farm and we are surrounded by blackberries/brambles damsons, haws, and crab apples so I can often be seen in season along the hedgerows with my baskets and buckets, for jelly jam and sauces all for the price of the sugar.

Awesome, I so want to get foraging!

Thank you Helga, that’s great to hear and lovely that you made you own mark on the recipe. Happy foraging:-)

Hi Tamela, here in the UK (and most of Europe) this is how we make jelly/jam and it is shelf stable. If you prefer to water bath then you’d need to refer to your jar’s instructions.

Never had done anything with apples, does the jelly not need to be water bathed or pressured?

Hi Shannon, we don’t water bath jams in Europe and elsewhere. This jam is shelf stable providing you sterilise your jars first and follow my instructions:-) It’s best eaten in the first year for optimum colour and flavour but the sugar will preserve it for years. Just keep in a cool, dark place to keep it at its best. I keep mine in a cupboard in my garage.

Do you need a water bath or any other extra step in the canning process? I’d like to try this but I want to make sure it won’t spoil edits I get to enjoy it all. We don’t do much jams and jellies in the house regularly.

Sounds wonderful Barbara, glad to have inspired you:-)

Excellent Sarah, so glad you like the recipe:-)

Reduced this recipes to 1/5 and it made a jar exactly!
200g blackberries
200g apples
225g sugar (we got 250ml of juice)
We did the set test at about 15 minutes.

Thank you so much for this recipe, we will definitely be making more!

Excellent Jenny, so glad you like the recipe:-)

Excellent Sarah, thank you so much for your feedback:-)

Hi Dot, it sounds like you had the heat too high and or not enough water to begin with which would account for you thinking the fruit was too dry. My fruit yielded 1.85 ltrs or juice on straining yielding 8 x 300 mls jars.

In reply to Rosemary.

The jelly was nice but the yield really terrible. Forget small batch it was miniscule.
I also thought the fruit pulp before straining was “dry”.
Still delicious, just need to increase amounts.

Oh Sheila, you’re such a tonic, I just laughed so hard:-) So glad you like this and my other jams, that’s lovely to hear:-)

Camilla, once again you are spot on.

I used a combined weight of 600g brambles/bramley and was a wee bit short of a normal jam jar + 2 little glass “yoghurt pot” jars, delighted!

The little jars are just right for a gift, I find the reusable silicone cap vacuums on nicely too.

I now have a selection of your jams in my pantry, all one punnet recipes.

Is it too much information to know my tights washed clean and I reckon they would be wearable at a push . . . .

Is that total weight? Otherwise hard to know what went wrong, the recipe is tried and tested and works as written.

I used 850g apples and blackberries but only got two smallish jars! Maybe I didn’t use enough water to simmer the fruit. It looks good though so may try again with this year’s crop. Thanks for the recipe.

Thank you Georgina, so glad you like it, it’s one of my favourite jams:-)

Wow! This was so easy and worked so well. Tastes absolutely delicious. Thank you

Hi Michelle, sorry for the late reply I’ve been working all day (and night) and yes they are metric measurements for which you’ll need a set of scales. You can’t convert a weight to a volume as it won’t be accurate. So I could send you off to a conversion website but chances are that the resulting jam would not be a success because of it. Today I thought I’d try to make a blueberry jam and give cup measurements but depending on the size of the blueberries the difference in weight between 1 cup or blueberries and the next was anything from 124 to 142 grams which wen you multiply up gives a huge difference to the total recipe. So I gave up as realised it just couldn’t be done (which I already knew really). Regarding your signing up to my news letter, that’s something you’ll need to do, perhaps try again or on another device. I’ve removed your e-mail from the comment to protect your data.

Me too, great to go full circle with these things and this is such a awesome jam:-)

I use to go blackberry picking when I was a child and it has some great memories… Might take this up again if I can make recipes using them like this one!

Excellent Margaret:-)

Still have quite a few in my freezer – perfect recipe all the family will love

Great, I’m sure you love this jam:-)

We grow our own blackberries and have a couple of apple mini-trees, so I’ll save this for next year!

Thanks Susie:-)

Thank you, I had some this afternoon on toast LOL:-)

Thank you, so glad you like it:-)

Thank you for sharing this delicious recipe! i love it

I’m am officially a jelly addict as well as a jam addict now:-)

Blackberry and apple jelly is one of my favourites to make (as well as plain apple and plain blackberry ones). So simple and sooooooooooo delicious!

Thanks! I know Heather, I didn’t realise I could be so easy either – currently making up for lost time!

I had no idea it was so easy to make jelly! I love the helpful things to be aware of section and this looks absolutely delicious! Great flavor combination .. very creative!

Me too! At least this way no-one has to give up their seat or stop playing hockey LOL:-)

Thank you Ruchi:-)

Thanks Swathi, it is a fab flavour combination:-)

Absolutely amazing idea to combine apples and blackberries in one delicious jelly. I love seasonal products and how much vitamins they give!