When blackberries are in season, it’s the best time to start stocking your pantries with this easy homemade blackberry preserves.
You can also use frozen blackberries to make this jam, but the flavor and aroma of the fresh ones are simply unbeatable.
Only 3 simple ingredients, like blackberries, sugar and lemon and less than 30 minutes of your time.
No pectin used due to high natural pectin contents in blackberry seed.
If prepared correctly, your jam will turn out very jelly.
Spread it on your favorite toasted piece of bread in the morning, stuff croissants, add as a berry swirl to homemade gelato. And even make some Blackberry Crostata! Imagination is the only limit.
Tools needed:
- Potato Masher
- Food Mill (optional, but makes life so much easier!)
- 8 oz Glass Jar
Full Recipe
Homemade Blackberry Jam
Ingredients
- 3 full cups/ 1 lb fresh blackberries
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 freshly squeezed lemon juice
Instructions
- Run blackberries under cold water. Drain well.
- Place a pot over medium heat, add blackberries, sugar and freshly squeezed lemon juice.
- Using a potato masher start crushing blackberries like crazy. Oh well, mash them how you can, but the harder the better. The goal is to extract as much flavor and pectin as we can.
- Boil the blackberry syrup for a couple minutes.
- Pass “soon-to-be” jam through a fine strain food mill to remove all the seeds.
- You can use a regular strainer and push through with a gravy ladle. But food mill makes life so much easier!
- On a low heat reduce seedless syrup to desired density. Keep in mind that consistency will settle down only after when completely cooled. And it’ll continue to settle for a few days after. So your blackberry jam should be still pretty liquid when you terminate the cooking process.
- Transfer still hot jam to a hot sterile jar leaving ¼ inch headspace and seal.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Buon Appetito!
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