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Homemade Sour Cherry Jam

July 1, 2011

Don’t you just love a fruity homemade jam for you breakfast? I don’t know if it’s the magic of the word “homemade” but I think if you cook your own jam, it tastes better than any store bought jam you had before. And it’s so easy to make!

 

Homemade Sour Cherry Jam

Homemade Sour Cherry Jam

 

When I noticed that the cherries of our cherry tree were ready to eat, I decided to make cherry jam, which is my favorite kind, closely followed by strawberry jam and apricot jam!

 

Freshly picked from the tree

Cherries in our garden

 

Making cherry jam is a bit time consuming, because you have to take out all of the cherry pits. For 2 kilos of cherries it took me about 1 hour to do just that. Nevertheless I found a great way to make that time really enjoyable – I listened to an audiobook. The story was actually so exciting that my mind drifted away and it felt as if the work was being done by itself. In case you wonder which audiobook it was, it’s called “The Swarm” by Frank Schätzing.

But back to the cherries! Once all the cherry pits are removed, the rest is quite easy. Just make sure to take the biggest pot you have, otherwise you might have a sticky cherry disaster on your stove!

Freshly picked from the tree

Freshly picked from the tree

 

Sour Cherry Jam

  • 600 ml sour cherry juice (unsweetened, pressed from about 1,6 kg cherries)
  • 400g sour cherries (prepared and weighted)
  • 1 pack (5g) citric acid (german: Zitronensäure)
  • 1 pack (20g) gelling sugar (1:1), for example “Gelfix Classic 1:1”
  • 1150g sugar

Clean cherries and remove stalks and pits. Press 1,6 Kg of the cherries through a sieve until you collected 600ml of juice (don’t throw away the left-over pulp and check out the bottom of the post for tips how to use it). Put the remaining (400g) cherries in a large pot. Now mix in the citric acid, gelling sugar, cherry juice and 2 tablespoons of the sugar. Bring to boil while stirring. Once the mixture is boiling, add the rest of the sugar and bring to boil again. Keep stirring all the way through. Let the jam boil for at least 3 minutes (still stirring) and then fill it into clean and dry jam jars and close tightly with a twist-off lid.

Enjoy!

Enjoy!

And at last a little tip for the left overs. Don’t throw away that juicy cherry pulp that is left over from squeezing the cherry juice.

 

Left-over cherry pulp

Left-over cherry pulp

 

There are a lot things you can use it for as a lovely fruity addition. For example:

  • mix it into a smoothie
  • make a chocolate cherry cake with it
  • add it to your breakfast oatmeal
  • cook it with a bit of sweetener and top it on ice cream

 

Ice cream with cherry topping

Ice cream with cherry topping

 

Chocolate Cherry Cake

Chocolate Cherry Cake

 

Oeatmeal with cherry pulp

Oeatmeal with cherry pulp

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  • Reply
    Melster
    July 1, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    that looks delicious!!!! I wanna try 🙂

  • Reply
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    July 5, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    […] might remember that I made Sour Cherry Jam the other day. When I was finished, I had a left-over of squeezed cherries (I only used their juice […]

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    My Vegetable Garden Part 5 | Greenderella
    July 11, 2011 at 9:47 am

    […] it’s a good time for a new update. As you might remember, last week I allready harvested the sour cherries and made jam, cake and cherry sauce of it. Also the zucchinis started to grow and I harvested the […]

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    Ginny
    July 16, 2011 at 11:40 am

    YUM. My mouth is puckering as I think of the jam\’s sweet-tart flavor.

    And I\’m so envious of your cherry tree!! Beautiful!

    Found you over at Sweet as Sugar Cookies.

    Have a great day!
    Ginny

    • Reply
      Greenderella
      July 16, 2011 at 12:52 pm

      Thank you for stopping by Ginny! I wish you a great day as well! : )

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