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August 30, 2014 By Janice Pattie 62 Comments

Spiced Blackberry Jam

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Spiced Blackberry Jam
Spiced Blackberry Jam is a lovely way to use the produce of the hedgerows.  I’m a big fan of foraging for free food and, I’m lucky because I have hedgerows right on my doorstep so no shortage of blackberries.
Blackberries and Spiced Blackberry Jam

When autumn (fall) starts to creep in, it’s definitely time to start preserving the harvest from your garden or the hedgerows.  People have been preserving food since ancient times. Evidence shows that Middle Eastern cultures were using the heat of the sun to dry their foods as early as 12,000 BC—for reasons of survival or culture or both. Fast forward to the present day, and preserving our food, perhaps home-grown, seasonal, local, organic, or free-range, is an essential and enjoyable part of a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.

Wisdom for Home Preservers by Robin Ripley is a comprehensive guide to preserving in all sorts of different ways including bottling, freezing, drying, fermenting, salt curing and smoking and cold storage/root cellaring. This isn’t a cookbook, there are no recipes, but it is full of really helpful tips which will help you get the most from your produce and answer any questions you might have.

About the Author

Garden and food writer ROBIN RIPLEY has been growing, cooking and preserving fresh food from her garden since moving to a small farm in rural Maryland 15 years ago. She is an enthusiastic experimenter of all things related to food, including bread and pastry baking, wine and cheese making, canning and preserving. She is co-author of Grocery Gardening and also raises pet chickens. Robin writes and talks regularly with groups about gardening, potager design and the importance and joy of supporting locally-grown and fresh foods.

blackberry jam, book and blackberries

Here are a few of the useful tips:

  • Tip 158: Pick the right bowls and pots for pickling
    Avoid containers and utensils made of unlined copper, iron, zinc or brass when pickling.  These materials may react with acid and salt and can cloud or discolour your pickles.  For pots, pick such materials as stainless steel, heatproof glass or hard-anodised aluminum.
  1. Tip 254: Set your freezer temperature to -18 Freezer temperatures settings should be set to -18 C (0 F) or lower.  Not all freezer settings are accurate, though, so get a freezer thermometer, available at supermarkets and kitchenware retailers, and regularly monitor the temperate and adjust the setting if needed.
  • Tip 279: Create your own herb meat rubs
    With herbs rolling in from the garden by the basketful, don’t forget you can mix the match them to make unique and delicious rubs for meat and poultry.  For poultry, try combining dried lemon thyme, sage, rosemary, salt, and pepper. For beef, try a combination of dried thyme, sage, marjoram, garlic and onion powders, pepper and salt.
 
Wisdom for Home Preservers
Author: Robin Ripley, Publisher: Apple Press  RRP: £12.99
 

Spiced Blackberry Jam

As Wisdom for Home Preservers doesn’t have any recipes, I am sharing a recipe that I have adapted from a variety of sources.  Blackberries, particularly wild blackberries, contain a lot of seeds.   When I made the recipe, I used whole berries, however,  you can also puree the cooked berries.  You do this by putting them through a food mill or push them through a sieve to make a puree which will make a smooth jam with no seeds.

Spiced Blackberry Jam and Blackberries
 

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SPICED BLACKBERRY JAM:

Janice Pattie
Enjoy the intense flavour of dark fruity blackberries spiced with cinnamon, star anise and cloves.
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 40 mins
Course jam, preserves
Cuisine British
Servings 50 teaspoons
Calories 12123 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 1 kg blackberries
  • 1 star anise
  • 3 whole cloves
  • 1 small cinnamon stick
  • 2 lemons juice
  • 1 kg white sugar warmed

Instructions
 

  • First sterilise your jars, by washing and rinsing them, the placing in the oven at 100C for about 20 minutes until they are dry. Leave them in the oven as they should be warm when you fill with the jam.
  • Wrap the star anise, cloves and cinnamon in a piece of muslin and tie with string
  • Put the blackberries and the spices in a large pan with 2 tablespoons of water
  • Cook until soft.
  • Mash the fruit with the back of a spoon
  • Remove spices, you can then either leave the berries whole or press them through a sieve or food mill
  • If you are making the puree, wash the pan then return the blackberry puree to the pan and add the lemon juice. I
  • Heat, stirring to prevent the blackberries sticking.
  • If you are using whole berries no need to wash the pan, simply add the lemon juice to the pan and proceed with the following instructions.
  • Add the warmed sugar stirring until dissolved
  • Turn up the heat and boil rapidly until the jam has reached the setting point
  • Pour the hot jam into the sterilised jars.

Notes

Makes approx. 500 ml jam, about a jar and a half.

Nutrition

Calories: 12123kcalCarbohydrates: 3121gProtein: 17gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 53mgPotassium: 1978mgFiber: 62gSugar: 3048gVitamin A: 2140IUVitamin C: 324mgCalcium: 430mgIron: 10mg
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Comments

  1. Jane Willis says

    August 31, 2014 at 4:46 am

    I love making – and eating – pickles

    Reply
  2. Emma Walters says

    August 31, 2014 at 4:52 am

    i have just started growing lots of food & now have an allotment – yay! would love to start some pickling next year & going to grow lots of shallots & beetroot to try, just need the perfect book to help me now 😉
    @emmav6

    Reply
  3. mellysocks says

    August 31, 2014 at 10:49 am

    Pickling.

    Reply
  4. Anne Szadorska says

    August 31, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    Making chutney of some sort

    Reply
  5. Tracey Peach says

    August 31, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    I love preserving fruit

    Reply
  6. Tracy K Nixon says

    August 31, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    I make jam and I pickle too!

    Reply
  7. Emma says

    August 31, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    I love preserving fruit, good hobby!

    Reply
  8. debbie finnerty says

    August 31, 2014 at 7:48 pm

    i love to make a plum jam/chutney my grandfather has a plum tree in his garden so always has so many left over so i snap them up 😉

    Reply
  9. Penny J says

    August 31, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    Jam. Or pickle. Or jam – LOL – I can't choose! Jam I think!

    Reply
  10. jillwebb says

    August 31, 2014 at 9:22 pm

    Love making Jam

    Reply
  11. Lorraine Tinsley says

    August 31, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    Jam, I haven't attempted anything else, but I love eating almost everything 🙂

    Reply
  12. Joanna Flowers says

    August 31, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    I am very new to preserves so this would be ideal to get me going 🙂

    Reply
  13. Leanne Lunn says

    August 31, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    Jams, pickling

    Reply
  14. Anonymous says

    September 1, 2014 at 12:27 am

    I love making jam.

    [email protected]

    Reply
  15. Anonymous says

    September 1, 2014 at 7:57 am

    Jam making. The book looks great. @millizilli

    Reply
  16. Karen S Booth says

    September 1, 2014 at 7:59 am

    I WOULD love to win this book and I love to jam, jelly, chutney and bottle!

    Reply
  17. sewwhite says

    September 1, 2014 at 1:24 pm

    I love jam making. It's so nice to make jam and give to friends.
    I really want to make the spiced blackberry jam x

    Reply
  18. Nadia says

    September 1, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    I love chutney and it would be great to.make some of my own!

    Reply
  19. Nadia says

    September 1, 2014 at 5:45 pm

    PS My other half makes jams and he would love the new suggestions in this book.

    Reply
  20. geezerbird44 says

    September 1, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    I love making jams and soups

    Reply
  21. Tina Lawton says

    September 2, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    I love making jam to have on my scones 🙂

    Reply
  22. Stacey Melia says

    September 2, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    I make wine from our fruit…does that count?!?!

    Reply
  23. julie laing says

    September 2, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    I love jams

    Reply
  24. Peter Schofield says

    September 3, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    I prefer making jam as I never have any luck with making pickles 🙂

    Reply
  25. Peter Schofield says

    September 3, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    Jam!

    Reply
  26. Elizabeth Briggs says

    September 4, 2014 at 5:26 pm

    Pickling 🙂 but would love to learn more about preserving – thank you x

    Reply
  27. gaby lovatt says

    September 5, 2014 at 11:41 pm

    tupperware

    Reply
  28. Stephanie Whitehouse says

    September 6, 2014 at 8:42 am

    I'm into bottling at the moment. I like seeing the jars of food in my pantry

    Reply
  29. kj19 says

    September 6, 2014 at 11:49 am

    I make jams, chutneys, cordials .. I love seeing my produce in jars in my cupboards

    Reply
  30. frances hopkins says

    September 6, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    Pickling x

    Reply
  31. fern says

    September 7, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    i so want to get into i all, never tried before. we have a raised veggy plot in our garden which has spent this year establishing, hopefully we will get some decent crops next year, we also have a cherry tree and apple tree so hoping to have good hauls from them next year too. mine & OH's first place and with our young fa,ily were looking at doing as much our selves as possible. i need a bit of a hand though!

    [email protected]

    Reply
  32. Fiona Mallard says

    September 8, 2014 at 6:13 am

    I like to dry food. My next step is to get a dehydrator so I can do more

    Reply
  33. rebecca woodroof says

    September 9, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    making jam

    Reply
  34. Solange says

    September 10, 2014 at 12:10 am

    Making jam

    Reply
  35. Heather Haigh says

    September 10, 2014 at 2:40 am

    I've never tried preserving, apart from bunging it in the freezer, but I would like to.

    Reply
  36. Anonymous says

    September 10, 2014 at 6:33 am

    I have to agree with the majority here – jams and jellies 🙂

    Reply
  37. Liz Marriott says

    September 10, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    I bottle a lot but would love to learn about salting for veg…

    Reply
  38. maxine partridge says

    September 11, 2014 at 9:34 am

    pickling

    Reply
  39. kasza says

    September 11, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    Jam making

    Reply
  40. jcst104 says

    September 11, 2014 at 4:08 pm

    I really want to try and make a meat rub

    Reply
  41. krnries says

    September 11, 2014 at 7:56 pm

    I do like making jam 🙂

    Reply
  42. WeeWillieWilkie says

    September 12, 2014 at 2:15 pm

    I like to make my own piccalilli 🙂

    Reply
  43. Lynda Shrubb says

    September 12, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    Make jam and pickles but would love to have a go at making chutneys.Looks like a great book

    Reply
  44. Rachel says

    September 12, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    I like freezing

    Reply
  45. Ser says

    September 12, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    chutney, jam or pickle it.

    Reply
  46. Alison says

    September 12, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    I love making chutney. I would love to try jam but have been scared to so far

    Reply
  47. rugmaker says

    September 12, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    Jam

    Reply
  48. westendlad says

    September 12, 2014 at 9:17 pm

    Pickling

    Reply
  49. lisapop says

    September 12, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    I enjoy making jams although I sometimes find jellies a bit tedious. I recently tried making damson ketchup & it turned out surprisingly well.

    Reply
  50. Kristy Brown says

    September 12, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    This is my first harvest this year so am looking at chutneys and jams which I have never done before – before I started growing food the only way to preserve it was to hide it from the tribe!

    Reply
  51. denise s says

    September 13, 2014 at 7:21 am

    this year i have been bottling fruit , it looks so pretty! seeing the fruit in syrup

    Reply
  52. Anonymous says

    September 13, 2014 at 8:04 am

    Got to be making jams and jellies. Tastes soooooo amazing and lasts you all the year round 🙂 @LyndaBrown5

    Reply
  53. snarepuss says

    September 13, 2014 at 8:56 am

    chutney 🙂

    Reply
  54. Richard Randall says

    September 13, 2014 at 9:54 am

    I love pickles.

    Reply
  55. becky004 says

    September 13, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    Pickling and chutneys

    Reply
  56. Amy Beckett says

    September 13, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    Love pickling

    Reply
  57. joanna_kow says

    September 13, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    Pickling

    Reply
  58. LESLEY BRADLEY says

    September 13, 2014 at 6:33 pm

    We pickle onions and add a few slicesof home grown fiery chillies

    Reply
  59. Claire Jessiman says

    September 13, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    Jams & Jellies

    Reply
  60. Kiran Parry says

    September 13, 2014 at 10:12 pm

    Pickling

    Reply
  61. Mark says

    August 16, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    I made this recipe with about a third the jam and it filled three jars. The proportion of sugar looked way out to me, especially given the guidance is to make 500ml / 1.5 jars. Something didn’t seem right.

    Reply
    • Janice Pattie says

      August 17, 2020 at 9:11 am

      Hi Mark, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have looked at the recipe and I agree that the sugar quantities seem wrong. I’ll have a look today and amend in line with standard proportions. Please accept my apologies for any error.

      Reply

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