Comments on: Raspberry Jam

By: The Old Bowl « BlogLily

The Old Bowl « BlogLily — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:05:41 +0000

[...] years ago, when I was just beginning to write this blog, I was up to my arms in raspberries, making jam. A day or two after I wrote about that, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I haven’t [...]

By: bloglily

bloglily — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:45:44 +0000

Yay Elaine! I’m so glad to hear that. I want to know how it tastes — so report back when you find out. xo, BL

By: Elaine

Elaine — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:18:40 +0000

I picked raspberries today. I did a search for a raspberry jam recipe and found this website. I made two jars of jam, I did not pick a lot of berries. They really are beautiful! Yours was the only recipe I could find that did not require pectin or jello mix. Thank you! I can’t wait to try it!

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:28:06 +0000

Sandra,
Your oven-method raspberry jam recipe can be found in Elizabeth David’s Summer Cooking (page 195, “Raspberry Jam, Unboiled”) I haven’t tried this one yet, but I it sounds delightful. The author recommended it as “by far the best raspberry jam I have have ever tasted.”
For me, canning is all the more fun, knowing that I am ignoring the shrill warnings of the USDA, subversively and dangerously using an unapproved, “unsafe” method of food preservation.
Amy

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:31:34 +0000

Now that I have thorns in my fingers from harvesting all those raspberry’s, I am ready to try your recipe. alas, It will have to wait until I return from my mom’s. I have the raspberry’s in the freezer (a little better than a gallon of them!).

Having never made raspberry jam before, i assume the freezer is o.k. for the berry’s until I use them. Hopefully when I return there will be more berries on the bush. but this time I will have the kids do the harvesting.

Can you tell me about how many jars I will need for all those berries?

I enjoyed reading your recipe. As luck would have it I have a gift card for Sur La Table! Guess what I am going to order?

Thanks again.

Annie

By: smiley

smiley — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:14:40 +0000

MMM….. raspberry jam sounds yummy. I have never had raspberry jam but it sounds good. I think I might try it. Thanks.

By: sandra clayton

sandra clayton — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:54:02 +0000

My mother-in-law used to make her raspberry jam in the oven. Sadly she has passed on and I don’t remember her recipe. Do I put equivalent amount of sugar to raspberries? Do I add the sugar to the raspberries and put both in the oven together? How long do I leave the raspberries in the oven before putting into jars? I would be grateful if anyone can help.
Sandra

By: bloglily

bloglily — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:53:44 +0000

Hey Mr. S — That’s one fine poem. Thanks for sharing it. Best, BL

By: smokey

smokey — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:28:50 +0000

Hi LIly,
I hope that everyone who has, or will soon have, a poem about anything raspberry or jam will post it in appreciation of your inspiring and contagious love of making tasty things. This is one I did a few years ago. Smokey

RASPBERRY POEMS

I didn’t mean
to drop
a slice
of raspberry-filled
birthday cake
on the love poems
you gave me.

Now I like reading
their stickiness
and licking between
the lines.

By: BlogLily » Jam Today

BlogLily » Jam Today — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:39:25 +0000

[...] The jam is done. If you want to see how it all started, you can read about it here. This is how I finished it. [...]

By: bloglily

bloglily — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:03:27 +0000

Hello All!

Everything in between — have a great vacation. And when you come back, I’m looking forward to seeing that series on Detroit (and anything else you come up with for that matter.)

Zack! You’re back. yay. I’m going to go & see how the south pacific was in a few minutes. I can’t imagine it being anything other than beautiful.

Hi Julie — Pickles! I’d really like to know more about that. It sounds like fun. The apricot jam is pretty much like this, except the recipe I use has some honey in it, which makes the jam even tastier. As for plums, you don’t have to peel them — just pit them. I love plum jam. You should come over and we’ll make jam. As you know, I’m not really doing anything except trying to have fun and relax, and making plum jam would be fun.

I hope the muffins are as tasty for you as they are for us.

Helen, I have this great Elizabeth David encyclopedia of breads. (It has a different name, but that’s what it is more or less. An entire chapter is on salt!) Anyway, I’ll bet there’s a good brown bread recipe in there. I’ve been wanting to make things that are healthier around here, but I also want them to be tasty. And as I told Julie, I’m going to be doing a lot of cooking in the next few months!

best, BL

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:28:11 +0000

I don’t make bread, Bloglily, but when I was young and we lived in a remote area, my mother used to make brown bread and it was delicious, especially when it was just out of the oven. That’s what I was thinking about when I saw your recipe for jam. Yum yum!!

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:28:05 +0000

I’m going to try out this recipe. I’ve made pickles before, but never jam. Is the recipe for the apricot jam the same? Does it work for other stone fruits (like plums — we have a lot of them!) I assume you peel the stone fruits?

I’m making your gingerbread muffins for a pool party this weekend. Thank you for the inspiring recipes (and for the inspired writing too).

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:27:45 +0000

I never thought I’d enjoy a post about …jam… so much. But, then again, that’s what you do, BlogLily; you make the mundane fun.

Good work.

-Zack

By: everythinginbetween

everythinginbetween — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:54:31 +0000

I want to move into that bowl of rasberries – and the lemon tree – gorgeous photographs.

We are about to leave for vacation and I look forward to scouting out the blueberry and blackberry patches we visit every summer to see how it’s all coming along…I myself am a huge fan of blueberry jam made much the same way.

Again, gorgeous!