Sooo much pooping

[Goosey Lucy]

Help!

I've just bought lots (4kg )of very cheap strawberries only to find I have no jam sugar or pectin and there's none to be found in the shops.

 

However, I do have some frozen crab apple juice that I strained from boiling up the fruit last year.

 

Can I use this in place of pectin? How much do I need to add? I usually use 2kg strawberries to 1kg jam sugar.

 

Thanks x

[teacake]

I'm sure it would work although I dont know how much you'd need. or you could try lemon juice.

[Goosey Lucy]

Thanks, I'm a bit wary of the hit and miss approach, will try another couple of shops tomorrow, there must be some on this island somewhere!

[majorbloodnock]

http://www.bigoven.com/recipe/97438/homemade-crab-apple-pectin is just one recipe for extracting pectin from crab apples.

[Richard T]

I thought that you didn't need to add pectin when making strawberry jam because the strawberries already had enough pectin in them. Can you just use ordinary sugar?

 

 

Richard T

Edited June 2, 2011 by Guest

[Goosey Lucy]

I thought that you didn't need to add pectin when making strawberry jam because the strawberries already had enough jam in them. Can you just use ordinary sugar?

Strawberries need pectin like most soft fruits, citrus don't.

 

I eventually managed to get hold of a bottle of Certo fruit pectin, it didn't work too well with the first batch but I added a tub of homemade crab apple juice and half a bottle of Certo for the second batch and it set a bit better. Then again my stawberry jam is always quite a soft set, very spoonable my boys say

 

Thanks for the replies teacake, major and Richard x

[WitchHazel]

Glad you made your jam in the end.

Lemon juice is a good substitute if you are stuck another time