Cherry Jam

Day Lewin

People who make jam. Help!

If the recipe says, say, a kilo of cherries, is that with or without the stones? The recipe doesn't say.

Looking at several recipes, none mention the stones.

I know I made cherry jam last year - I've just finished the last of it and it was superlative. I remember making it in a hurry, because I had a goodly basket of cut-price cherries that had to be used up!

But I can't for the life of me remember what recipe I used, except that it was definitely with Jam Sugar.

And now I want to make a new batch but the recipes give a weight of fruit, without mentioning if cherries are weighed pitted or with stones still in.

Advice please??

sdp

I've found, most weight is with the stone in. not made cherry jam, but make damson jam every year, and the weight is with stone in. Would it be worth trying with a small batch to test?

pigtail33

I thought it would usually be the weight of just the fruit, so without the stones. This recipe (I've never made it before) specifies that the weight is after stoning. Most jam recipes have equal quantities of fruit and sugar.

squonk

Isn’t jam usually about 50% sugar/50% fruit? Off the top of my head I’d look at how much sugar there is and base my assumption on that since if it’s 1Kg fruit and 700g Sugar, you’d assume the fruit would be stoned so tgst would infirm me.

Day Lewin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120867517#Comment_120867517

That's pretty much what I did, in the end.

Though I still think it remiss of the writers not to SAY whether the recipe is for stoned or unstoned fruit.

In fact, I have seen recipes of both kinds - one saying fruit and sugar same weight, another giving different weights, heavier on fruit - yet neither added the elementary clarification for the reader.