{"id":196,"date":"2009-08-21T15:08:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-08-21T15:09:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T21:09:59","slug":"pump-up-the-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Pump up the Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to clear out my kitchen before I move home I made the following the other night&#8230; excellent stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"firstHeading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goonswithspoons.com\/Cherry_Peach_Jam\">Cherry Peach Jam<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><!-- start content --><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a really tasty sweet jam recipe that I adapted from a crazily overdone one I found elsewhere on the net. The cherry juice turns the peaches a beautiful ruby colour and the aroma while it&#8217;s cooking is to die for.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Ingredients\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Ingredients<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>8 Normal Sized Peaches (Washed and pitted\/chopped, I leave skins on but you can remove if you prefer)<\/li>\n<li>2 Cups Cherries (chopped)<\/li>\n<li>4 cups sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 boxes pectin (peach jam takes extra pectin as there isn&#8217;t a ton of natural<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup lime juice<\/li>\n<li>Butter (optional, to remove scum)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Method\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Method<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sterilize your jars and keep them nice and warm so the temperature shock of the hot jam doesn&#8217;t shatter them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chop your fruit, then combine in blender or food processor. (You can also mash with a potato masher, but it takes a while)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Process until you hit the desired consistency, I like my jam a little chunky but you can get it as smooth as you want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Move the fruit to a pot, add your pectin and lime juice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring to a boil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the sugar, then bring to a rolling boil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Once it&#8217;s boiling, cook while stirring vigourously for 5 minutes or so<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The scum that forms at the top is harmless, but doesn&#8217;t look very nice in your jam, stir in about a tbsp of butter and much of it will dissipate. If some remains you can add more butter, or remove it with a spoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ladle hot jam into jars, ideally with a canning funnel, but you can do without.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Seal jars and process for 10 Minutes in a boiling water bath.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Super super tasty and really quick for a jam. Made excellent farewell gifts at the office as I finish my second last week.\u00a0 More content to come soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to clear out my kitchen before I move home I made the following the other night&#8230; excellent stuff. \u00a0 Cherry Peach Jam This is a really tasty sweet jam recipe that I adapted from a crazily overdone one I found elsewhere on the net. The cherry juice turns the peaches a beautiful ruby colour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-uncategorized","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qtCo-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}