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Question about storing home made jam!

mellowyellowgirl

mellowyellowgirl

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Hi Folks! I need help! Surprisingly I am not part of a cooking forum so need help here!

I made mulberry jam but I used only 30% sugar. Jam is well sealed and well sterilised (I even boiled the sealed jam for a while before removing the entire jar) but because of the low sugar content should I keep it in the fridge or can I keep it in the pantry?

Pic of a tiny portion of my mulberry harvest! The crazy tree is pumping out 1kg of ripe fruit a day and driving me crazy with all the work I need to do to save these berries!

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Sorry no help here, just wanted to say that those mulberries look delicious! Wish I could have some, yum :lickout:
 
LetLoveRule said:
Sorry no help here, just wanted to say that those mulberries look delicious! Wish I could have some, yum :lickout:
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Oh goodness you can have kilos if you lived near!

I thought it would be cute to put in a tree for my kid to harvest a few berries. Tree went crazy and now every year, during this time of the year I spend my days dealing with the fruit because I feel so guilty not using it all up. This is after giving heaps away to friends!
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Oh goodness you can have kilos if you lived near!

I thought it would be cute to put in a tree for my kid to harvest a few berries. Tree went crazy and now every year, during this time of the year I spend my days dealing with the fruit because I feel so guilty not using it all up. This is after giving heaps away to friends!
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I would've loved some but since you're harvesting I can only assume you don't live in Australia where summer is about to start :lol:

That's a very nice gesture but bet you're kind of regretting it now :P2
I'm not sure if this is a thing but besides jam, can you make juice out of them?
 
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I'd say sterilization is what counts.

This being said, I hardly ever make enough to last more than a month or so... Plum (near sugarless) and cherry (1/3 sugar) seem to last years - if I loose track of them. Mulberies have never been forgotten thus!

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@LetLoveRule I am Aussie!!! I also make ice blocks and jelly with them. They make great jelly after being strained.

@AV_ thank you for that info on your jam! Gives me confidence to store it in the pantry. I'm such a rookie I used 1kg and only got 2 jars.
 
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I know little about making jams, but there are at least two local jam makers here who claim to use the least amount of sugar possible and their stuff doesn't need to be refrigerated until it's opened.

Do you dry your mulberries as well?
 
Cool dry place out of sunlight should be ok.
Put a date on the lids so you know when it was made.
Generally 2 years is said be the max but I have opened jars much older that were fine.
 
Wonderful!. You can also make a sauce and put in plastic bags and freeze them. I do this with other berries and use them for crepes, cakes, as well as savory sauces for pork and duck.
 
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Agree with @Karl_K If you have a basement even better because that area stays cooler than the rest of the house. Did you use the regular Ball jars or the types with the popup center that you can tell if it lost its seal?
 
@LetLoveRule I'm in Sydney! So nice to see a fellow Aussie online! :D Someone to lament with about the bad Aussie dollar :(sad

Thank you every one! I will keep it in the pantry for now! Someone told me they were nervous about things growing in it so that got me paranoid but honestly I boiled that jar for a while I felt like it should keep!

@Arcadian I used a recycled jam jar that has the lid where the air sucks in and it's supposed to pop when you open it. After I sterlised the jars, added the jam, reboiled sealed jar, the seal sucked down so I am pretty sure it will POP when I open it like it does when you buy a brand new jar of something at the shops

@JPie I've never thought about drying them! Are they tasty dry?

@lambskin right now I have them in 500g batches in my freezer to make jelly (Jell O) with. The family loves jelly.
 
@JPie I've never thought about drying them! Are they tasty dry?[/quote]

They are! We seldom find them fresh around here, only dry. My husband likes them in cereal and yogurt.
 
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JPie said:
@JPie I've never thought about drying them! Are they tasty dry?
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They are! We seldom find them fresh around here, only dry. My husband likes them in cereal and yogurt.[/QUOTE]

OMG I will try that! I use my airfryer to dry pineapples and apples all the time! Did not think I could dry these! I am so curious now!
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
I'm such a rookie I used 1kg and only got 2 jars.
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N'ah, the more fruit/jar the better. It is a matter of taste how much you want to boil them down. I have had plum jam served as slices... - great stuff which I have never had the patience to reproduce!
 
Hullo, hullo, over here! :wavey:
Fellow Sydneysider requiring mulberries please.
Don’t talk about the A$ it’s depressing me almost as much as the $10.27 GST fee eBay just charged me on a $0.99 cent item.
I’m not good at maths but 10% of 99 cents is NOT $10.27 no matter if US or AUD!
Grrrrr
 
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Bron357 said:
Hullo, hullo, over here! :wavey:
Fellow Sydneysider requiring mulberries please.
Don’t talk about the A$ it’s depressing me almost as much as the $10.27 GST fee eBay just charged me on a $0.99 cent item.
I’m not good at maths but 10% of 99 cents is NOT $10.27 no matter if US or AUD!
Grrrrr
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We can do our own get together! :mrgreen2: (with mulberries please..)

Wow that's a LOT of GST :lol:
 
LetLoveRule said:
We can do our own get together! :mrgreen2: (with mulberries please..)

Wow that's a LOT of GST :lol:
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It’s going to be a bit of a disaster purchase.
It’s a cast iron base lamp with lampshade, about 2 foot high. The cast iron part has to weigh 8 kilos plus the rest of it and with packing. And it’s going to be a very big parcel.
I bid without paying attention, I was using eBay.com.au, figuring $40 is about right for standard parcel post, but was actually looking at a US seller.
I messaged the seller to tell them to cancel my bid knowing this wasnt going to end well for them- “can’t do that” I was told. So yeah, I won this huge heavy lamp thing for 99 cents plus $40 shipping (and $10.20 GST on the .99 cents).
So I paid and now a silly US seller, who wouldn’t cancel my bid, will find out when he goes to post it that shipping is more like $200 plus to send it to me in Australia. He should have cancelled my bid!
But yes, Let’s have our own a Pricescope get together in Sydney!
 
Ok NSW gang

Mulberries seem to be slowing down from what I can see today but we just harvested these so if you guys want a bunch I'm usually in the city once a week!

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Oh, this thread! You do make me want stuff from half a world away rather badly...

Thank you very much! :)
 
AV_ said:
Oh, this thread! You do make me want stuff from half a world away rather badly...

Thank you very much! :)
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I know how you feel! I once met a nice lady on a forum who grew lemonades. She had soooo may of them! Like weeds! I became obsessed with finding out what they tasted like so ended up putting in a tree myself!

Lol turns out they weren't all that great but good for making Nuoc Cham! :lol:
 
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