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On 24 Jun 2013 18:11:45 GMT, 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?


Don't be so darned paranoid...

Red raspberry jam is readily available commercially both with seeds
and seedless. However blackberries and black raspberries are
different fruit and it's rare to find black raspberry jam
commercially. Blackberry seeds are about twice the size of red
raspberry seeds, and are typically woody so need to be strained.
Unlike red raspberries black raspberries when picked retain their stem
so also need to be strained.
http://www.differencebetween.net/obj...ack-raspberry/