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I thought the lemon was to add the pectin in some jams, so they set more. So think we've used it with strawberry but not raspberry before. Would we still need lemons if we have jam sugar?

Or is the lemon for something else? :D
 
I thought it was to stop it being too sweet? You could argue use less sugar, but then it maybe it wouldn't keep so well?. I'm not sure about the whys and wherefores... :)
 
Ah no, if we have lemons we don't need jam sugar. You only need jam sugar for certain types of fruit anyway. I'd just get normal sugar. In fact it'd be a mistake to use jam sugar on any fruit that already had plenty of pectin in it. Personally I prefer to add lemon anyway for the flavour.
 
NB I'm not sure if I'll make the picking or not, will have to see how I get on. The A3 looks a bit intimidating to me as a town biker, used to going at under 30mph everywhere and stopping every 100 yards.
 
RubyToogood said:
NB I'm not sure if I'll make the picking or not, will have to see how I get on. The A3 looks a bit intimidating to me as a town biker, used to going at under 30mph everywhere and stopping every 100 yards.
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I'm as bad RTG! Is it proper motorway or not really? If proper motorway style we might be taking a scenic back road approach... :D
 
RubyToogood said:
I have no idea, that's the problem. I've been looking at scenic back road approaches but I'm not sure there's a good one.
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I just multimapped it... the longest continuous stretch without turning and stuff on the A3 is 4.8 miles - it appears to be the Kingston by pass - so I guess one could just not bypass Kingston!

I think it will probably be fine to be honest.
 
Yes, since that's the Kingston bypass, I think the main alternative is to go via Kingston. This makes more sense on a bike than in a car though as traffic jams don't bother me. I might try that, as what I really hate is being stuck on a long busy road that I can't get off or turn round on.
 
huh - ok, I just saw this after buying the sugar...

I've got half Preserving sugar ('good for oranges, plums, blackcurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, greengages, damsons and other fruits high in pectin' - so it says on the packet) and half Jam sugar ('good for strawberries, pears, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, rhubarb and loganberries and other fruits low in pectin').

I got 6kg as that was as much as I had room for, but can always nip out for more tomorrow... working on the assumption we pick a kilo of fruit for jam making each, also that we need the same amount of sugar as fruit.

Various jam recipes call for 3:1 ratio of fruit to sugar, 2:1 or 1:1, so it seems a bit random!
 
eme said:
Various jam recipes call for 3:1 ratio of fruit to sugar, 2:1 or 1:1, so it seems a bit random!
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I think random is probably better for us lot than specific!

I've been hassling your mister for this banana and nectarine cake recipe. the boys at Brazas gave us an enormous bag of bananas - maybe 30 or so bananas last weekend. We've had LOTS of banana and choc chip muffins this week, but I happen to have some nectarines in the kitchen too - so was thinking about trying out your cake!
 
gg - any other route than A3 is likely to take over an hour... if you let nipsla take the lead and follow her - you're not on the A3 for very long - and it doesn't get like a motorway til you get round Weybridge iirc :)
 
Help! mango5 has not received her consignment of wax discs for the jam. Does anyone know of a shop in London that sells them?
 
Arrgh! Have now been in a large number of kitcheny shops and received nought but blank looks. Now legging it to Morleys without the benefit of tube service :mad:
I bet I get 200 discs on Monday!
 
BiddlyBee said:
gg - any other route than A3 is likely to take over an hour... if you let nipsla take the lead and follow her - you're not on the A3 for very long - and it doesn't get like a motorway til you get round Weybridge iirc :)
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I do actually know the way a bit - I have been down the A3 before loads of times - just haven't driven it in a long time and I'd really rather not follow someone if I can avoid it - it's always a nightmare! Don't worry Bee - it'll be ok! :)
 
That stretch of the A3 is fine. Definitely not motorway like so nowt to worry about :)

See you all in the morning for some hardcore jam action!
 
* yawn*

Do I need to bring extra jars for peeps who are jarless? I've only packed 5/6 for me, but have plenty more.
 
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