Jam making in a bread maker

I have been busy since my last post I have harvested plums,Blackberries, Apples, Elderberries,
and Pears, then turning them into Jams and chutneys, Wine,syrups, cordials and freezing any spare in the freezer.
The freezer is now full so it will have to be Wines,syrups,jams, chutneys,and dehydrate and store in airtight jars.

We have had shelving put up in the back toilet so we can see all the jars and bottles as when we had them in a cupboard we could not see what we had and some got over looked.

The jams in the picture below are from left to right Nectarine and mango, Strawberry, both made in the bread maker, and finally chili pepper jelly made on the stove.

To make jam in the bread maker I put in 2 cup full of Fruit which has been squashed with a potatoes masher or food processor the colour stays and doesn't go dark like it would when its been cooked on the stove.

recipe for making jam in a bread maker.

Fruit 2 cups full of fruit mashed or blitzed in the food processor.

3 cups of sugar with added pectin.

If you cant get sugar with added pectin then use 3 teaspoons of lemon juice.

Put in the bread maker and set to jam program. my bread maker takes 1hour 20Min's.

Still picking the odd Field mushrooms when out with the dogs but not enough to dry in large lots.

Barbara is at work tomorrow so I will take over the Kitchen after taking the dogs out in the morning and wine bottling in the afternoon.

I have a recipe for tomatoes jam from a friend I have lots of tomatoes so I may have a go at making some.

I hope not to leave it so long before I post.

The kitchen beckons

I have been busy in the kitchen in the last 2 weeks this weekend I had the steam juicer going and made 4.5pints of Apple juice I bottled 4pints and put the .5 in the fridge for breakfast.
It keeps well if you leave the bottles on the side and put in the fridge when you open.

The steam juicer I have was made in Sweden and i use it to make juice it is easy to keep in bottles and saves room in the freezer.
apples, blackberries, any fruit that is spare you can always add apple and blackberry and sugar to make a jelly, Blackberry will make a nice syrup if sugar is added.

The basket will hold 11pounds of fruit just wash and chop apples leave the cores and pips and all you are left with is a cooked pulp.

I found my first field mushrooms of the year this weekend and tonight I found a lot more it may be a good year this year.

I had a day Bottling wine 18 bottles of Dandelion flower and 11 bottles of Parsnip of course I tried the half bottles just to see if they would pass the test and they did.

The parsnip is on the left and the dandelion is on the right.

These are dandelion I made 3 gallon this year and i must say its very good. these six bottles are the first to be bottled.

For a simple life I find it hard to find the time at the moment with making things in the kitchen and wine and things but it will get better when I start to fill the freezer.

on the way out of work tonight Kaz gave me what i thought was 1 marrow but it turned out to be 3 so Barbara will have to see it her dog walking friends will take 1 each.