Five years ago when we moved into our home we planted 4 raspberry bushes at the back of our property. During the first year we only got a handful of berries, but as the years have gone on…we’ve gotten more and more. I now get enough fresh red raspberries to make a batch of homemade jam every year. Plus, there are always enough leftover to make 2-3 fruit pies too! YUMMY!
The recipe that I like to use is from the Ball Blue Book – Guide to Preserving on page 53. Once properly processed, the jam should keep for up to 1 year. I store mine in my pantry closet. Here’s the recipe.
Home Canning – Raspberry Jam Recipe
* Recipe makes about 6 half-pint jars
2 1/2 quarts red raspberries
1 cup water
1/4 to 1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 tbsp. Ball Low or No Sugar Needed Pectin
Prep: Wash red raspberries under cold water; drain. Gently crush berries one layer at a time using a potato masher until you have 5 cups of crushed raspberries.
Cook: Combine crushed red raspberries, water, granulated sugar and pectin in a large saucepan, stirring to blend everything together. Bring mixture to a full boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly; boil hard for 1 minute. Remove mixture from heat and if gel begins to form before 1-minute boil is completed, skin off foam if necessary.
Fill: Ladle hot jam into a hot jar, leaving 1/4″ headspace. Remove air bubbles, clean jar rim and adjust band to finger-tip tight. Place jar on rack of the water bath canner over simmering hot water. Continue until all jars are filled.
Process: Lower the rack into the simmering water. The water must cover jars by at least 1″ over the top. Adjust heat to medium-high, cover canner and bring water to a rolling boil. Process half-pint jars for 10 minutes. Turn off heat and remove cover. Let jars sit in the hot water for 5 minutes. Remove jars from the canner. Cool jars for 12 hours.
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I love to ook and I wqnt to try canning. I finally bought some Ball equi[ment.
I love Raspberries. They are my favorite. I wish my 3 bushes were doing as well as yours. I do have a blackberry bush that seems to like it in my yard!
I developed an allergy to raspberries several years ago, so I’d use another berry, but this would be really good. I’d definitely try it.
Raspberry jam is the best especially with fresh raspberries Our raspberry bushes usually produce tons of raspberries but this year we hardly got any and the ones we got were small and shriveled. Think due to lack of rain and smoke from forest fires.
As much as I love to cook, I have not ventured out enough to make jelly or jam. Your recipe actually seems simple enough that even a newbie such as myself may be able to make! I am curious, do you think I can make this same recipe but substitute with blue berries instead?
Yes, you can use blueberries.
This looks so easy. I bet I can do this. Thank you for the directions.
This looks good. I love the raspberry jams! I also like how you put yours in smaller jars, it makes it nice so you don’t have a huge jar you ave to use so quickly. These would even make for nice gifts.