Mixed Fruit Jelly Recipe – Strawberry, Sweet Cherry, Sour Cherry and Blackberry Jelly Recipe

Strawberry, sweet cherry, sour cherry and blackberry jelly recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams sugar
• 250 grams strawberries
• 250 grams blackberries
• 250 grams sweet cherries
• 250 grams sour cherries
• 1 pouch (3 ounces) liquid fruit pectin

Mixed fruit jelly recipe instruction:

Strain the fruits through a fine sieve, pour sugar on it and cook it in the medium size saucepan to become thick (at least 30 minutes to boil). Stir it frequently. On the end, add liquid fruit pectin in the saucepan, stir the jelly and remove it from the heat.

Sterilize jelly jars in the oven on 120°C for about 30 minutes.

Pour your mixed fruit jelly in the sterilized jars, seal them and return jars in the warm oven on 80°C for 10 minutes more. Turn off the oven and leave jars in it to cool together with the oven over night.

Store your mixed fruit jelly in the cool and dark place. You can experiment with a different kind of fruits to make a different kind of mixed fruit jellies.

Mixed Fruit Jam Recipe – Red Currant and Strawberry Jam Recipe

Red currant and strawberry jam recipe ingredients:

• 2 kilograms strawberries
• 500 grams red currants
• 1 1/2 kg sugar

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Homemade mixed fruit jam recipe instruction:

Mix washed and cleaned strawberries with red currants, and pour sugar over them in deep saucepan. Let it in refrigerator over night.

Next morning put your saucepan on the heat to boil. Cook the fruits for about 40 minutes (stir it often).

To be sure that your mixed fruit jam is done, take some jam with the spoon and let few drops to fall in the plate. When drops are cooled, they must be thick (not in a liquid state).

Pour your fruit jam in warm sterilized jam jars and put them (without lids) in the oven to warm up on 100°C for about 10 minutes.

Seal the jars and wrap blanket around them over night (until they become cold).

Store them in the cool and dark place.

Simple Syrup Recipe – No Cooked Raspberry Syrup Recipe

Raspberry syrup recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram raspberries
• 1 1/2 kilograms sugar
• 1 squeezed lemon
• 1 1/2 liters water

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Simple syrup recipe instruction:

Pour washed raspberries in the large saucepan and cover them with lemon juice and sugar.

Let it stand for few hours to let off their juice (stir them few times in a mean while).

Boil water and cool it. Pour cooled water over raspberries and let it stand like that for the next 24 hours.

Strain fruits through a fine sieve and pour your fruit syrup in a syrup bottles previously warmed up and sterilized in the oven (in 120°C for about 30 minutes). Seal the bottles and store them in the cool place.

Homemade Fruit Compote – Peach Compote Recipe

Peach compote recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram peaches
• 2 cups water
• 400-500 grams sugar

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Homemade fruit compote recipe:

Pour sugar in water to boil. Cool it.

Wash peaches, peel them off and remove peach pits from them. Cut peaches in a half and arrange them in the jars.

Pour cold sugar syrup over fruits in the jars and seal them.

Pour cold water in the deep pot and put jars in it (to sink in, but water must be under the lids). Cook it to boil and then remove the pot from the heat.

Take jars out from the pot, let them cool and store your peach compote in the cool and dark place.

The Difference Between Jams and Jellies, Marmalade, Preserves, Compote and Syrup Recipes

The difference between them comes in the form that fruit takes.

How to make jam?

Jams are made by boiling fruit and sugar to a thick consistency and does have fruit bits.

How to make jelly?

Jellies are made by boiling sugar, the juice of fruit and with gelatin or pectin, and does not have fruit bits.

How to make marmalade?

Marmalade is a clear sweetened jelly, sometimes with fruit rind and without fruit bits.

How to make preserves?

Fruit Preserves – fruit made into jams or jellies and cooked whole or in large pieces, so as to keep its shape.

How to make syrup?

Fruit Syrup is a thick sticky solution of sugar and concentrated juice of a fruit.

What is compote?

Fruit Compote is a dessert of fruit cooked in syrup.

Homemade Lemon Jelly Recipe

Homemade lemon jelly recipe ingredients:

• 6 lemons
• 1 liters water
• 1 kilograms sugar
• 1 deciliter lemon liqueur
• 1 pouch (3 ounces) liquid fruit pectin

Making jelly instruction:

Wash lemons and slice it into thin strips (together with a rind) in large saucepan. Pour cold water over lemons and let them in the water for 6 hours.

Put lemons with water to boil, cover it and remove it from heat for 10 minutes. After that, return mixture to the heat for 10 minutes more, remove from heat and immediately add liqueur and pectin in it (stir it good).

While it’s hot, pour your homemade jelly into hot and sterilized jars, cover with lids and store in cool and dark place.

Easy Orange Marmalade Recipe

Easy orange marmalade recipe ingredients:

• 700 grams oranges
• 2 lemons
• 500 grams sugar
• 8 cups water

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How to make orange marmalade:

Wash oranges and lemons, peel them and cut them (fruits and fruit skin) into fine pieces.

Put fruits in the pot, pour water over oranges and lemons and let them stand for 24 hours.

Cook them for 30 minutes and let them stand for 24 hours more.

Add sugar in oranges and cook them again for 1 hour.

Warm up the jars in the oven in 100°C for 10-15 minutes to sterilize.

Pour hot marmalade in warm marmalade jars and close them hermetically. Cover the jars with blanket and let them stand till next day. Keep jars in cold and dark place. This orange marmalade will thicken after few hours.

Sour Cherry Preserves Recipe

Sour cherry preserves recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram cherries
• 1 kilogram sugar
• 2 tablespoons water

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Cherry preserves cooking instruction:

Wash the fruits and remove the pits from the cherries. Put alternately cherries and sugar in the pot, in several layers and water on the end.

Put the pot on the low heat, till sugar melts and then continue to cook cherry preserves in moderate temperature, till it become thick (when preserves fall in thick drops from the spoon).

Remove the pot from the heat, cover it and let it stand about 10 minutes (cherries to release some juice).

Return the pot on the heat, cook it for 15 minutes more and remove it from heat.

When it is done, remove foam, which gathered on the surface of the preserves, with the spoon. Cover the pot with a clean gauze and let it over night.

Pour your fruit preserves in clean jars.

Homemade Jam Recipe – Plum Jam Recipe

Plum jam recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram plums
• 600 grams sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Juice from 1 squeezed lemon

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Making jam instruction:

Put plums in boiling water for 2 minutes, take them out and then pour cold water over them, so you can peel them easier.

Peeled plums divide into halves, take plum pit out and put them in the enamel pot. Pour lemon juice and then sugar over plums and let them in a cold place over night.

Next day, cook your prepared plums about 25 minutes in moderate temperature.

When your fruit jam is cooked, stir vanilla in it. Pour hot jam into warm jam jars and close them good.

Closed jam jars put at wood base, cover them up (you can use blanket) and let them cool. Your homemade jam recipe is ready for use!

Quick and Easy Homemade Strawberry Jam Recipe

Homemade strawberry jam recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) strawberries
• 600 grams (1.32 pounds) sugar

Wash strawberries and arrange alternately, in your cooking dish, layer of strawberries and layer of sugar few times, till you put all jam ingredients in.

When strawberries let off their juice and soak the sugar (about 1 hour), put your dish on moderate heat for about 20 minutes. Stir it periodically and be careful, because strawberries must not fall apart.

Pour finished strawberry jam into jam jars (warm up jars first, so they don’t break up) and close them hermetically.

This is quick and easy homemade jam recipe to make, without any food additives, so it is healthier fruit jam recipe for your family than store-bought jams. I am sure you will like it!