All Entries in the "Jam" Category
Cranberry Fruit Compote
We had another great cooking session in the South Arm Community Kitchen. Membership has risen this year from just a few people to more than ten people now. Minoo made a Turkey Chilli and a Cranberry Fruit Compote while Ade made a Japanese Squash and Tapioca Dessert. I had blogged about the Turkey Chili here before.
The lunch was great. It would be great if we have some crusty bread or spaghetti to go with the Turkey Chilli. What I enjoy most is to have two desserts in a meal.
The Cranberry Fruit Compote is great dish for Thanksgiving, to go with the turkey. It can be served as a dessert alone or to be topped with vanilla ice-cream. It is also great as breakfast or brunch when served on yogurt.
Fruit compote is also good for people who cannot eat fresh fruit for some health reason. You can make fruit compote with fresh fruit too like pear, apple, etc when they are in abundance. It is much easier to consume a cup of cook down fruit compote than eating 3 fresh fruits. When you make fruit compote with fresh fruit, you will need much less juice to start with since the fresh fruit will have a lot of juice in them.
Ingredients
- 1 cup dried mission figs
- 1 cup dried Turkish apricots, pitted
- 1 cup dried prunes, pitted
- 1 cup raisins
- 3 cups apple juice
- 2 cups orange juice
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 12 oz fresh cranberries
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Strawberry Freezer Jam
Karen showed us how to make this beautiful Strawberry Freezer Jam. Summer is the time where we get all the delicious, nutritious and antioxidant laden berries and what better than preserving them in freezer jam for enjoyment all year round.
The Freezer Jam can be refrigerated for up to 3 weeks or freeze for up to 8 months.
This is a no-cook freezer jam using light pectin crystals. The freezer jam pectin requires less than half the sugar used in freezer spreads made with regular pectins.
Ingredients
- 8 cups (2L) strawberries (about 2 lbs), hulled
- 1 box (49g) light pectin crystals
- 3 1/4 cups (800ml) granulated sugar
Do not use overripen strawberries for making freezer jam. This is due to the need for the acidity in the strawberries to react with the sugar and pectin to form the jam.
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