Cherry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Stone the cherries and remove the pits.
Cook the jam
Boil the cherries with the pits and add an equal weight of loaf sugar.
Stir the mixture and remove any scum that forms.
Boil until the jam reaches your desired thickness or until it jellies.
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
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit, flavor, and body that the jam is built from.
- Loaf sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps the jam thicken and set as it cooks.
The step that matters
Boil until the jam jellies. Sugar and fruit pectin set into a gel only at a sufficient concentration. Stopping too early leaves the jam runny, while boiling too long can make it stiff and dull in flavor.
“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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