Merry Christmas Jam Recipe [+VIDEO] 🎁 MasalaHerb.com (2024)

Merry Christmas Jam Recipe so that you can surprise your loved ones this season with your homemade food gift.

Not only the name but also the fruit jams flavor combination with spices will warm up your family and friend's heart.

If you are looking to gift a jar of homemade jam preserve for Christmas, I can recommend the Orange marmalade.

I think the name, Merry Christmas Jam, is fun and totally suitable.

This Christmas Jam Recipe will get us all into the Christmas mood, no matter if it's snowing outside or not.

The jam includes seasonal fruits and spices, which remind me personally of Christmas and all the food goodies that we tend to enjoy during that time of the year.

I combined each ingredient, fresh fruits and spices, in such as way that they compliment each other to create a unique magical winter jam.

🍐 Ingredients

Fruits

I created the Christmas Jam Recipe by combining pears, plums, figs, and raisins, and because I want you to enjoy preparing your own batch, I haven'tset any fixed rules on the amounts for each fruit.

However, I have fixed the total quantity of all the fruits, which gives you plenty of freedom to combine the amounts of each fruitthe way you like.

So, for example, I combinedthe fruits the following way: 30% Pears + 30% Plums + 30% Figs and the remaining10% the Raisins.

Spices

To turn this Jam into a Christmas delight, I add spices which will remind you of the holiday season.

This includes green cardamom, staranise, and cinnamon.

I think the combination of these 3 spices alone is more than enough to bring out the flavors of the fruits and to make you realize with each bite that the jam is magical.

Sugar

This Jam, as are all my jams, is prepared without pectin sugar because it's based on the French way of preparing jam.

Real regular sugar is used instead, which preserves the jam really well for many months.

Please do not reduce the sugar quantity in this Christmas Jam Recipe, because the sugar is not only a sweetener but the main ingredient that preserves the fruits.

🔪 How to make it?

To prepare the jam is super easy and straightforward.

Just follow the basic steps outlined, watch the quick video and read up the full recipe below with the ingredient quantity and complete instructions.

1. Wash fruits, discard core of plums, and pears.
2. Wash and sterilize jars and lids in boiling water or oven
3. Cut fruit into chunks and place into pot
4. Pour sugar over the fruits.
5. Mix sugar into fruits
6. Take to heat
7. Add the Spices
8. Slowly bring to a rolling boil
9. Reduce heat and let simmer until jam thickens and sets. Setting point is105 Celcius/220 Fahrenheit.
10. Check with Thermometer, or freezing cold plate, if the jam is set
11. Once the jam is set, take out the spices from the hot jam
12. Blend the jam to a smooth or semi-smooth consistency
13. Fill jam into clean jars up to the rim
14. Pour a tiny amount of rum, whiskey or other alcohol into the lid to give your jam extra protection
15. Close the jam jar tight
16. Turn the hot jar with the jam in it upside down to create a vacuum. Leave the jar that way for 24 hours.
17. Label your jar with the jar name and date
18. Store in a cool and dry place. Keep in the fridge once opened.

Basically, you can prepare a jam at home with just a simple large pot, a wooden spoon and some old glass jars with lids.

It's that simple.

However, if you enjoy making jam and or you want to go all the comfortable way by using some tools, then I suggest you can some of the basics.

For example, instead of a plain large stainless steel pot, you can get one of those fancy French copper pans.

I'm saying fancy because they are for an outsiders perspective.

In France, most countryside homes have a copper jam pan like this because it's a family heirloom.

I'm waiting for my mum to pass hers on to me. If you can afford one, get one too, please!

It's worth every penny!

Another tool of the trade is a wide-mouth funnel so that you don't make a mess when pouring the jam into the jars.

I really should get one of these!

When sterilizing jams, you will need a jar lifter to move the hot jars from A to B without contaminating them.

You can boil the jars and lids in hot water to sterilize or place them into the oven to kill off all the germs.

If you are new to cooking in jams without pectin sugar, I suggest you get hold of a reliablecandy thermometerso to assist you with getting the setting temperature right.

👁️ More winter jam ideas

• Pear Preserves
• Persimmon Jam
• Apple Jam bytheviewfromgreatisland.com

Dear Readers, whom are you going to surprise with your homemade merry Christmas jam this season?

📖 Recipe