Redcurrant Strawberry Jam, the Easy Way!

It has rained for a while now, in these parts of Belgium. So, I headed over to our allotment & needed to harvest a lot of strawberries & the first of the red ruby red currants! This year, we have a smaller harvest of juicy red sweet strawberries. What a pity! Today, I harvested these lovely strawberries & a lot of the first juicy ruby red currants,….ooh yes! And guess what I made with them: redcurrant strawberry jam! Easy peasy! Here is the lovely easy video:

Recipe: For a whole lot of jam

Ingredients:

1 kg red juicy red currants, cleaned, pad dry & no stalks please!

500 gr juicy ripe strawberries, cleaned, hulled & each cut up into 2

500 gr jam sugar that only needs 4 minutes of cooking

extra needed: sterilized jam pots & lids, a funnel, a smaller soup ladle

note: I sterilize my jam pots & lids one wash in my dishwasher. It is easy this way. You can put them in the dishwasher at the same time, you mix your fruit & jam sugar. Leave the pot for 3 hours at the kitchen counter to infuse the flavors & sugar. My dishwasher cycle lasted for 3 hours. So, I could relax.😉

Method:

Take a fitted large cooking pot & add your red currants & strawberry halves in it. Add jam sugar & mix it through the berries with a spoon. Leave it to rest for 3 hours. The berries will absorb a lot of the sugar. Now, before boiling, I mashed a lot of my berries with a potato masher, like 10 times. That is what I want. You can leave them whole, if you like but you need many red currants to pop because they have that glorious pectin in them!
Heat up on medium heat. When boiling, lower your heat & let the mix boil for 4-5 minutes, stirring often. This is all said on the package. Fill, your hot jam into your jam pot until nearly full, with help of a funnel & soup paddle. Place the fitted lid really good on. Turn the pots upside down to make it vacuüm. Be careful not to spill any jam, it will be really hot! When cooled down, turn jam pots back & label them. Store them in a cool dry place for later use. Enjoy!
These last for more than 1 year in a dry cupboard, but they won’t stand that long! They also make an ideal food gift! ;) Stay Tuned! If you liked this post & want more of them, join 1,650 email followers to get my new cool email newsletters! Subscribe by email! It is free!