Showing posts with label rhubarb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhubarb. Show all posts
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Let's make some jam today
I wasn't in the mood for making either of the dishes, so I bought the rhubarb without any recipe in mind.
Back home, I not only had an idea what to make, I also solved my problem, what to give my mother in law for her birthday. She loves rhubarb, but doesn't really like cake and while I looked at my freshly baked bread I decided to make some jam.
I don't really have a sweet tooth and till today I've only made jam once or twice, so I had to look up some recipes. To my disappointment all of them were either mixed with strawberries that I can't buy at the moment, or bananas. As I don't like the combination of bananas with rhubarb I was pretty clueless. Thinking about making a pure rhubarb jam, I had the fear of rhubarb not having enough pectin to set.
A glimpse to the limes gave me the inspiration for this recipe. I saw in all the recipes, that some kind of a citrus fruit was always used, but I was unsure, if the jam would come out very sour. But I decided to give it a try. As I had vanilla beans left from our stay at Mauritius I put one of those in as well. Out came a delicious jam, although not as firm as I expected. Still worth writing about it. And at the end, half of the jam became part of the birthday gift for my mom in law.
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