Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Spiced Blueberry Jam

Would you like a pint?

You may not know this, but last summer I purchased 60 pounds of wild Maine blueberries (blue gold and I refer to it)!  I froze most of them!  I have been breaking into my stash to make pies and desserts.

Well, last week I had a burst of energy (thank you school vacation) and decided to make Spiced Blueberry Jam!  This is a fairly simple jam to make and it is absolutely delicious!

Besides putting it on muffins, toast or English muffins, it also goes well on ice cream, breakfast/dessert waffels, lightly softened and spread over cream cheese as an appetizer served with crackers, or as a glaze on pork & chicken!

I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

12 ounce size
Spiced Blueberry Jam Recipe

6 cups blueberries
7 cups sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
dash ground cloves
1 6-ounce package (2 foil pouches) liquid fruit pectin

1. Crush blueberries with a potato masher. (You should have 4 1/2 cups crushed berries.)  In an 8 or 10 quart kettle or pot combine crushed blueberries, lemon juice, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves.  Stir in sugar.

2. Heat over high heat to a full rolling oil, stirring constantly.  Stir in pectin.  Return to a full rolling boil.  Boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat; skim off foam with a metal spoon.

3. Ladle at once into hot, sterilized half-pint jars, leaving a 1/4 inch headspace (I use pint or 12 oz jars).  Wipe jar rims; adjust lids.  Process filled jars in a boiling water canner for 5 minutes (start timing when water returns to boil). Remove jars from canner, cool on wire racks.

P.S.  Today I traded a pint of my jam for a jar of my coworkers honey . . . it's amazing!


34 comments:

  1. I am tempted to get on a plane for a jar of that!!!

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  2. I'm coming with Dom and will make some biscuits since he will probably make scones!!

    Best,
    Bonnie

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  3. On a cold winter's eve there is nothing like warmed homemade blueberry jam over french vanilla ice cream. A snow day towmorrow? Stay safe, Julie.

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  4. There is nothing like wild blueberries they can't hold a candle to the cultivated one. I have recently had some small maine shrimp the they were so wonderful
    Cathy

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  5. Well, my gosh, that blueberry jam sounds delish. Mmm mm mmm I have blueberries on my cereal every single morning.

    Take care and thanks for sharing. Susan

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  6. I know how good wild Maine blueberriers taste, Mary, so your jam must be amazing! How lucky you are to be able to purchase such a large amount of fresh berries.

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  7. I made jam out of last year's frozen blueberries too. Wish I'd had your recipe though!

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  8. I made some similar to this-yum....I cut way back on the sugar it called for-but it looks like you didn't put any in? Got a lot still in freezer-must make some more and I want to put some in applesauce from apples in the garage that need to be sauced too! It's great to go to the blueberry factory and get a big box!! Yey wild Maine!!
    ~~Rain

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    1. Thanks for pointing out I missed the sugar! Yikes, I'll have to correct that!!!

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  9. Those jars look so good. Jealous of your stash!
    Nice trade for the honey.

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  10. I can vouch for the deliciousness of this spicy blueberry jam. I love it on everything. Are you enjoying the day off?

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  11. The jam looks so yummy. I'm jealous of your blueberries, and the trade for honey. I'm not sure who got the better end of that deal!

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  12. yum! i love your recipes! enjoy your day!

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  13. I might join Dom and fly over . . . it would probably be cheaper to fly than to buy 6 cups of blueberries over here! The picture looks gorgeous and the recipe even better. I shall just have to dream!

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  14. Blue Gold is right! What a great way to use some of that stash. How delicious this must be.

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  15. Mmm. There's nothing more pleasurable than receiving home made jam, except maybe fresh honey? I'm on the fence on that one. I'm still treasuring some cherry jam from Vermont that my neighbor gave us. Your blackberry spice jam sounds so delicious!!

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  16. I just made a blueberry sour cream pie today. I did the same thing I froze all of my blueberries and now I am getting into them. I love blueberry jam the most so I will be making this recipe.
    Nothing like fresh warm jam on warm bread.
    I really like the picture at the top of your blog. :)

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  17. 60 pounds of blueberries is like gold to a blueberry love like me. Thank you for your recipe!

    Hugs,
    Susan and Bentley

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  18. I love blueberry anything, this looks sooo good.

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  19. Blueberry jam is my favorite but, like Karen, I love blueberry everything!

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  20. I've made many pots of jam, in the past, but I never spiced it before. What a lovely idea. I too buy all my Irish blueberries when in season. So handy to have them in the freezer!

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  21. I'm so jealous of your "blue gold!" The jam looks really yummy. :)

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  22. I've never ever made Jam - they look great!

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  23. The jam sounds great and I love bartering-enjoy:@)

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  24. I have pinned your recipe. I hope to have enough blueberries ready at one time to try it this summer. Maybe I will have to freeze a couple of cups until I get enough. We put some more bushes in a couple of years ago but unsure they are going to do anything at this point. Thanks for stopping by and your sweet comments on my work area!

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  25. I love the spices in the jam. I also like the looks of your Mexican beef tacos. Will give them a try.

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  26. At times like this I wish we had such berries in Greece but unfortunately we don't! The jam looks amazing and the spices you used I am sure gave it a special kick!

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  27. Oh! yumm Looks so reary good. Thanks for droping my place.You suold of seen my Samrocks in Bloom, they are dieing off now, untill next fall.

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  28. Exchanging this lovely jar of jam for a jar of fresh honey is a brilliant idea! ...and now your friend and you have the best of both worlds.

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  29. I have some wild blueberries sitting in my freezer; I have never made blueberry jam; this I will try when i get back home; looks perfect.
    Rita

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  30. Wow, thats a lot of healthy blueberries!
    This recipe looks great, thank you for sharing!

    Gillxx

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  31. that looks amazing...what beautiful color! I can imagine how good it would taste! ♥

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