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Jam didn't set - now what?

post #1 of 6
6/29/10 at 9:50am
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I made blackberry/rhubarb jam a while ago but it didn't set. I've made it before with no problems so not sure what I did. It's too thin to use as jam and I'm not sure what else I could do with it. I want to make some more jam and need the jars. Any ideas?
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post #2 of 6
6/29/10 at 10:07am
call it a sauce and use it over pancakes
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post #3 of 6
6/29/10 at 10:07am
Your user-name is so appropriate!

I had that happen to me with a batch of strawberry jam that I made. I don't know what went wrong... my other batches are fine.

But when I was reading an article about jam making there was a question that asked, "How do I make strawberry ice cream topping?". The answer was, "Just use less pectin. Ice cream topping is just jam that is less firm."

Voila! You and I made homemade batches of ice cream topping!
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post #4 of 6
6/29/10 at 10:11am
You could try to re-set it, I have had that be successful before. There are usually instructions on the box of pectin.
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post #5 of 6
6/29/10 at 11:50am
I agree you've made a really tasty sauce. You can pour it over all sorts of things - ice cream, pancakes, sponge cake and cream...

You could even try making a tasty drink with it, depending on how thin it is. Try placing a spoonful in the bottom of a wine glass, topped with ginger aie, Seven Up, or club soda, and with a couple of raspberries or mint leaves to garnish.

If you have some empty squeeze bottles (for ketchup or mustard), you can fill a bottle with your sauce. Then you can decorate dessert plates with all sorts of fancy squiggles when you are plating cakes or brownies etc. A quick dusting of powdered sugar, and it will look like it came out of a very expensive restaurant.
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post #6 of 6
6/29/10 at 1:23pm
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Originally Posted by ollyoxenfree View Post
Then you can decorate dessert plates with all sorts of fancy squiggles when you are plating cakes or brownies etc. A quick dusting of powdered sugar, and it will look like it came out of a very expensive restaurant.
Hmmm...we just happen to have some very decadent brownies in the freezer .

I guess we'll be eating lots of ice cream this summer .

Thanks everyone!
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