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Easy Homemade Blackberry Preserves

As I mentioned final week, nosotros accept a prolific amount of blackberries due to my Dad's blackberry patch. After making several Blackberry Cobblers, nosotros even too thus didn't appear to brand a dent inwards the berries.

Sometimes inwards the middle of summertime bounty, yous tin toilet nigh forget the bleakness of wintertime that is only half dozen months away. Our Granny used to ever position upward peaches inwards the summertime too larn them out on Christmas morning. They were ever a piddling frozen too slushy, too delicious on Christmas morning. A piddling breath of summer.

The sentiment of bottling a piddling chip of our carefree summertime inwards the cast of Blackberry preserves gave Emma too me a piddling motivation afterward schoolhouse final week. I can't hold off to larn these out to transcend our biscuits for a snuggly fire-side breakfast this winter.

While I did consults some recipes, truth-be-told, I accept no sentiment how much saccharide is inwards our preserves.

That's what happens when I'm behind the photographic boob tube camera too Emma is inwards charge.

I was shocked to notice out how much saccharide other recipes sited - ours was non nearly every bit saccharide heavy. I wanted it to sense of savour similar fresh blackberries, non sugared jelly.

I mean value it was a piddling something similar this :

half dozen cups of Blackberries

1 1/2 - ii cups of sugar

juice of 1 lemon

Put it inwards a large saucepan too ready for peradventure xxx minutes.

As I said, I wanted to save the sense of savour of a fresh summertime blackberry, too thus I didn't squelch or smasher or endeavour to take the seeds. Not exclusively volition they hold upward to a greater extent than of the essence of a existent summertime berry, it was much easier. Much easier.

While the berries continued to simmer too thicken (cooking for nigh 1 hr on depression heat), I sterilized the jars inwards H2O for v minutes. Just brand certain the H2O is simmering.

I removed the jars amongst tongs too position them on a pan for filling. Make certain jars are even too thus hot when spooning inwards hot jam too thus the jars don't break.

I flora that ladaling the mixture into a pouring criterion loving cup made filling really easy.

Our recipe made v jars.

I sealed the jars yesteryear submerging them inwards simmering H2O for 10 minutes too watching until at that topographic point were no to a greater extent than bubbles coming out. For detailed canning instructions, essay out here.

Of course of pedagogy I needed some cute labels for our jars. I used the 2.5" Printable Circle Labels from my store. They come upward every bit half dozen sheets of 12 for $5. I dear having them to a greater extent than or less to brand homemade goodies expect great.