Christmas Jam is just great. It’s cheap, it’s tasty, it shows how thoughtful you’re being by making something so personal and best of all… it is a brilliant red colour! It has the lovely flavours of cranberries, orange and cinnamon with the freshness of strawberries.
It really doesn’t take long to do and here is the recipe:
You will need:600g cranberries, 450g fresh strawberries chopped in to small pieces, 1.2kg of jam sugar with pectin, juice and zest of a large orange, 1 bottle of certo pectin, ground cinnamon and cloves to taste.
Method:
- Add one and a half pints of water to the cranberries, orange and zest, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes
- Sieve the mixture to get rid of the seeds and skins, really push the mixture through to get the maximum fruit puree (You don’t have to do this if you don’t mind it slightly coarser textured)
- return to the heat and add the chopped strawberries and the sugar bring slowly back to the boil
- Stir in half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon and a quarter of ground cloves, taste and add more if you like
Boil hard for 1 minute
Remove from heat, stir in the bottle of certo- Pot in to clean jam jars
This is such a pretty jam and people do like it when you’ve taken the trouble to make something special.
Merry Christmas!
The Bombay Boys 