On 6/24/2013 2:11 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2013-06-18, Dave Smith > wrote:
>> On 18/06/2013 11:57 AM, Broadback wrote:
>>> It will not be long before raspberries are here (UK). Other years I have
>>> frozen them, but to be honest I have got a bit fed up with raspberries.
>>> So this year I thought I'd use some for jam. What is a good recipe? is
>>> the jam difficult to set?
>>>
>> If you buy a commercial pectin it probably has the recipe, and raspberry
>> is one of the easiest because you don't need to do anything to the fruit
>> other tan pick out any stems or leaves in the basket.
>
> Put the lotion in the basket.....
>
> ....jes kidding. Seriously, why do companies that produce commercial
> blackberry jam take all the seeds out, but leave all the seeds in
> raspberry jam? I jes bought a jar of raspberry jam for my mom and the
> damn thing has almost more seeds than jam. I protest!! I hate
> raspberry and love blackberry and seeds, yet every brand of blackberry
> jam on the mkt shelf is "seedless". WTF!! Is this some kinda world
> wide plot against notbob?
>

I suppose it's what you are used to. I've always preferred raspberry jam
with seeds and blackberry without. I guess that's also how my mother
used to make it and among the few things I remember liking about her
cooking :-)


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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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