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Preserve your Produce on Bernardin National Can-It-Forward Day with the Home Canning Starter Kit-Giveaway

August 7, 2013 by Kathryn 112 Comments

One of my favourite things about cooking is learning new techniques that let me make even more fun food for my family. We all have our favourite dishes but sometimes I want something specific that I haven’t yet learned how to make, or I have a surplus of a certain fruit or vegetable and want to use it in a new way.

Canning is easily one of my favourite ways to preserve extra fruits and vegetables, but it’s something I’ve only attempted for a few years. Part of the reason was that I didn’t really know what equipment I needed and so if recipes required that jars be processed in boiling water, I didn’t attempt the recipe. I mastered a delicious plum jam that the boys absolutely love but I didn’t know how to progress from there.

bernardin home canning starter kit [Read more…]

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Kat’s Summer Plum Jam-A Taste of Summer To Enjoy All Year Long

September 8, 2012 by Kathryn 24 Comments

Every year the little plum tree in our backyard provides us with dozens and dozens of tasty plums. These aren’t the traditional purple plums that are found in the store; the flesh is yellow and incredibly sweet while the skins range in colour from red to purple depending on the ripeness and are very tart.

kat's summer plum jamThey are great for fresh eating but once cooked, the skins become bitter, so after years of piling sugar onto cakes, pies and tortes made with the frustrating fruit, we finally resigned ourselves to just eating as many fresh plums as possible and letting the rest spoil on the ground.

Then, a few years ago, it struck me that I might as well try to make plum jam with our surplus of plums. I had never made jam before, so I decided that I really didn’t care if I messed up the canning process or if the plums made awful jam.

A few hours later, I knew what all our extra plums would be used for in the future. The plum jam had been quick and easy to make, and tasted fabulous!

The tart skins of the plums I use are perfect for making a tangy, flavourful jam, but this recipe will work perfectly whether you are using wild plums, store-bought plums or the tart-skinned, yellow-fleshed plums similar to the ones that we grow. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Pickles and Preserves, Recipes Tagged With: canning, canning recipes, fruit, fruit preserves, homemade jam, jam, jam recipe, making jam, plum, plum jam, plums, preserves, wild fruit, wild plum jam

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