Making nectarine jam
There is a fruit tree in our garden I could not make out what kind of fruit it would bear. My wife kept telling me that it is peach or nectarine, but I did not believe her, because the fruits were so small. Earlier this week I noticed that a third of the fruits have fallen on the ground from the branches. I picked the better ones up and got all from the tree. I guess they were ripe enough. They were indeed nectarines, albeit smaller than usual. They were sweet, with a hint of bitterness. We decided to make jam out of them. Three days passed between picking them and actually making the jam. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the nicer looking nectarines that we used for the jam. So, on the first picture you see the leftover fruits, that we later cut up, removed the bad parts and froze in small chunks for later use.

I washed them.

I halved them.

I sterilized the jars that we collected over the year for this purpose.

I also boiled the lids.

I twelved the fruit, i.e. cut each half into six pieces.

I measured them. We ended up having 18 cups of cut fruit.

The pits. Call me obsessive, but I was curious how many fruits we used. Considering that there were 114 pits, I assume that was the final number.

Sugar and lemon juice was called for.

Mixed the ingredients.

Started to cook, the sugar melted real fast.

Still cooking.

The jars are ready.

Used a small ladle to put the jam into the jars.

The ready products a day later, removed from the wrappings that ensured slow cooling.


















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