I love blueberry pie. I wasn't loving "freezer" blueberry jam, which isn't cooked. It dawned on me recently, why not make a cooked blueberry jam? I found just the thing in Preserving the Taste, by Edon Waycott (out of print, available used or try your library).
Here is my adaptation:
Ingredients
- 1 orange plus juice
- 1 lemon plus juice
- [total juice should equal 1/2 c]
- 1.5 c water
- 4 c fresh blueberries or 2 12oz bags frozen, thawed, crushed
- 3 c cane sugar
- 1/4 tsp cardamom
Directions
- Cut off ends of orange and lemon, extract juice
- Seed then pulverize all in a food processer, place in good sized pot
- Add water, boil 10 minutes
- Add juice, boil another 15 minutes
- Add blueberries, sugar, spice
- Cook uncovered 20 minutes or until reaches set temperature of 220ยบ
- Fill jars, process to seal or freeze
