It’s that time of year where gardens, allotments and fruit farms are heaving with all manner of gorgeous summer fruits. With this in mind I have developed Summer Fruits Jam. Everyone in my family loved this jam as the combination of strawberries, cherries, blueberries and rhubarb complimented each other beautifully. In fact I had wanted to enter this jam into our local Parish Day Show but it was so popular that we’d eaten it all by the time I found out the date for it! All was not lost as I’m sure many of you know I went on to win first prize with my quickly made Peach & Apricot Jam from ingredients I had in my fridge at short notice!
For more jam recipes containing strawberries you might like the following:
Quick One Punnet Strawberry Jam (1st Prize Winning) – Fab Food 4 All
Rhubarb & Strawberry Jam – Fab Food 4 All
Previously published in 2013 on the Good Food Channel.
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Summer Fruits Jam
Ingredients
- 450 g strawberries
- 100 g cherries
- 50 g blueberries
- 50 g rhubarb
- 500 g Granulated Sugar
- 1 lemon juiced + ½ the skin
- 10 g Butter
Instructions
- Wash and dry the fruit with a paper towel.
- Chop rhubarb into 2cm pieces, hull the strawberries then pit and halve the cherries.
- Put all the fruit in a glass bowl and cover with the sugar and lemon juice and leave overnight together with the half lemon.
- The next day, put 3 saucers in the freezer ready to test the jam’s setting point.
- Clean 2 x 400gl glass jars and lids in your dishwasher (or pour boiling water into freshly washed jars and lids), then put in the oven upright at 140°C for 20 minutes and then turn off the oven leaving the jars to stay warm in there.
- Pour the fruit/sugar mixture and half lemon skin into a preserving pan.
- Remove a handful of smaller strawberries if you’d like some whole fruits in your jam.
- Mash the fruit with a potato masher lightly and then add the whole strawberries back into the pan.
- Heat the pan gently until all the sugar crystals are dissolved, stirring to check.
- Bring the pan to a rolling boil and time for 10 minutes.
- Spoon a few drops of jam onto a saucer, place in fridge and if it crinkles after a minutes when a finger is pushed through it, it is ready, if not carry on boiling for a couple of minutes (at a time) and repeat the test until ready.
- Once ready, remove the lemon skin and stir the butter through the jam to remove any scum (or if you would prefer just remove the scum with a spoon)..
- Use a small ladle to pour the jam into the warm jars and put the lids on immediately.
We usually just make our jam with fruit and chia seeds, but I definitely appreciate the “real” thing too. I want this on toast now.
I did try making sugar free chia jam once, trouble was the sweetener tainted it, hubby won’t eat seeds and after 2 weeks it just went mouldy so that blog post never came to fruition.
another gorgeous looking jam. I’m going to be spoilt for choice when the fruits are all ripe
Thanks Heather:-)
What a fabulous combination! I do occasionally make jam when I have a few spare moments, but I never think to use more than one fruit – I can quite imagine using a combination of fruits is even better than single fruit jam! Thanks for sharing…and for all the lovely jammy inspiration! Eb x
Thanks Eb, this is the best of all worlds with each fruit playing its part:-)
Oh my this looks devine! Wish my Grandma still has her eyesight as I know she’d love to make this x
Aaw, sorry to hear that, maybe you could make some for her?
Love the combination of fruits you’ve brought together for this jam, I bet the flavour is so rich and delicious!
It does taste heavenly:-)
Yum what a fabulous idea to use a range of different summer fruits! I’d love to try this and think it would remind me of a summer pudding. Just got to rescue my jam pan from the garden then will try it out!
Thanks:-) From the garden! What have you been doing with it Lucy!
The kids have been playing with it!! It is full of water currently and needs a good wash!
LOL! Get it back in sharpish:-)
Mmm love a good homemade jam! Especially when it’s packed with so many different fruits 😀
Thanks Nadia, it is a truly wonderful jam:-)
I always make a summer fruits jam with the little bits of fruit at gathered at the end of each season which I freeze till I have enough. Always a winner!
Fab Heidi, a unique jam at the end of every season:-)
Can’t beat homemade jam.
A neighbour of ours makes a lot of jam, so we never bother! It does taste loads better than the shop-bought stuff!
Lucky you:-)