{"id":1157,"date":"2013-08-11T23:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2018-07-23T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:33:43","slug":"salal-jam-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Salal Jam (Improved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried making <a href=\"http:\/\/turnerphotographics.com\/2012\/01\/04\/plant-of-the-month-salal\/\">salal<\/a> jam once before, and I remember none of the recipes made that much sense for me. Most were actually for jelly, not jam (which is a lot more work). I picked one and tried it, and found the results disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>This time, I went back the the recipe I used before, and adjusted it a little bit. The result was <em>much<\/em> improved. Here&#8217;s what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p>8 cups salal berries, unmashed<sup>1<\/sup><br \/>\n1\/2 cup water<br \/>\n1 cup sugar<br \/>\n1 lemon, juiced<\/p>\n<p>Wash berries and remove foreign matter (fir needles, etc). Add 1\/2 cup water and cook until soft (2-5 minutes). Run the softened berries through a Foley food mill.<sup>2<\/sup> Add lemon juice to results, bring to boil, add sugar, stir vigorously for 1 to 2 minutes until sugar dissolves, return to boil, remove from heat.<\/p>\n<p>Apply the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/19\/dining\/canning-jam-from-preparing-the-jars-to-testing-the-seal.html?_r=0\">standard 10-minute processing<\/a> in a boiling-water canner.<\/p>\n<p>You might have noticed there is no pectin in the above recipe. Salal berries are naturally high in pectin. Commercial pectin is not needed.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Most jam recipes call for measuring raw mashed berries. Forget it; even fully ripe salal berries are too firm to mash raw. Moreover, I managed to pick most of mine without the stems; if most of yours have stems, you might want to increase the measure to compensate.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup> Or if you&#8217;re into upscale, electric appliances, I suppose a food processor could do this as well. Just be sure to use an attachment that runs the berries through a mesh of some sort as well as mashing them. You do want to get the skins and stray stems out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried making salal jam once before, and I remember none of the recipes made that much sense for me. Most were actually for jelly, not jam (which is a lot more work). I picked one and tried it, and found the results disappointing. This time, I went back the the recipe I used before, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}