jam recipes

[happy place]

quick plea for help sinch i made my rubarb and gooseberry jam my beloved has been on at me to make some more from differant stuff so has anybody got any recipes for other jams the more unusual the better partickually intrerested in elderberry recipes and other suggestions for rubarb and ? jams

[ina]

Rhubarb and banana: I used 1kg rhubarb, 2 very ripe bananas, 1kg sugar, 1 sachet pectin.

Rhubarb and raspberry - 50/50, plus equal weight in sugar (and the necessary pectin).

[happy place]

thanks ina need a recipe for using over ripe narnas up as me and ankle biters won't touch them so will definatly try these
anyone else got any ideas

[ina]

Rhubarb and strawberry, of course - I tend to forget about that as it was our standard jam in Germany... But I find that most people here have never heard of that combination.

Gooseberries are nice with an addition of bananas, too.

[Ellendra]

Here's an article with some unusual jam recipes, including one for elderberry: http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/sanders70a.html

You can simmer and strain most fruits for the juice, and then follow the directions for grape jelly from there. That trick lets you make jellies from almost anything edible (I have seen garlic jelly, among others).