the jam

November 19

So, this is The Jam.

It goes like this...

To make jam:
1)Choose a main ingredient. (2 cups)
2)Select symbiotic ingredients. (roughly 1 cup)
3)Surprise me with spice, herb, flower, bacon fat, anything... (to taste)
4)Cut all ingredients down to size. Jam size.
5)Choose a sugar. It's light or dark. Pick a side. (1-1.5 cups)
6)Stir in 1 cup of sugar.
7)Bring to a boil in cast iron or Dutch oven.
8)Let it bubble for nearly an hour. When it looks like jam, you're done. 
9)Pass time stirring at 10ish minute intervals, mushing the hot fragrant fruit with the back of a wooden spoon, pastry blender, or whatever mashing tool works for you.
10)Simmer and cool. Jar. Store.

These are the flavors I made most recently.

Spiced Banana Pear
ingredients: pear, banana, passion fruit, sugar, cinnamon, lavender, and lemon.

Pumpkin Apple Butter
ingredients: apple, pumpkin, honey, sugar, ginger, all spice, and lemon.

Roseberry Mint
(alternatively: Cranberry Bogs Forever)
ingredients: cranberry, strawberry, sugar, mint, rosemary, and lime.

Curried Tomato Chutney
ingredients: tomato, brown sugar, onion, peppers, basil, garlic, lime, coriander, nutmeg, mustard seed, red pepper, fenugreek, and turmeric.