Very Common Barberry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Weigh the barberries after stripping them from the stalks.
Boil the barberries for 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly.
Add an equal weight of sugar to the barberries and boil for 5 minutes.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Barberries
- Provide the tart fruit flavour and the pectin-rich body that the jam sets from.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam, balances the tartness, and helps it thicken and keep.
The step that matters
Boiling the barberries before adding sugar. Cooking the fruit first softens it and releases pectin, so the jam has a better chance of setting once the sugar is added and boiled.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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