Would love to hear how it came out if so! So I wanted to try at home and found your recipe. b) If you have a regular blender, blend in batches. Boiling Water Bath Canning: Including Jams, Jellies, and Pickled Products. The new ones can gel in a pH up to 7, which is way above the safety cut-off of 4.6.

9.347. Thank you so much. Colarado State University Extension. In others, they may fade. The colour darkened with the passage of time, even though the jars had been still unopened. 1992. Sugar’s preservative effect is to, in effect, sort of mummify the fruit. Accessed March 2015 at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/foods/fn1423.pdf jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_7452_20").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_7452_20", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); Smaller jars than called for would appear to always be fine. When it was perfect taste & the dehydrated watermelon was soft I added the pectin. I’m a jam fruit, and love to do anything that I can get my hands on. 30 August 2013. June 2013. But this is not a worry, because the tested no-sugar needed pectin recipes you use will already be giving the correct, adjusted processing time (just remember to always do any additional adjustment necessary for your altitude.). Visiting from Homemaker Monday. The NCHFP has used it in a few recipes. Search this site on maple. Eat the jam.

Reduced-sugar jams and jellies may require longer processing in the water bath canner to kill these micro-organisms that might cause spoilage.”  [21] Morris, William C. Low or No Sugar in Jams, Jellies and Preserves. Canning With Artificial Sweeteners . 15 December 2010. I added about 3 Tbl, boiled it quite a bit longer and the consistency was just right. Required fields are marked *. Made 10 pints.

Great on toast or English muffins. (If you are above sea level, times will vary. I think you really need commercial pectin and a lot of it to make this work. It is not safe to make preserves from these unless you have a tested recipe. The University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service. Accessed June 2015. Depending on the size of your blender, you may have to work in two batches, but the finished amount of puree should be roughly 4 cups.

Awesome recipe! Page 1. Instructions In a large bowl mash your strawberries until they are mashed up. as kids we couldn't wait to get to mawmaw gussie's house for our treat of fresh biscuits watermelon preserves and cafe au lait! Did I do something wrong? I don’t know if that makes mine more or less sweet, but I’d make it the same way next time. Stevia is a natural product derived from a plant, just as sugar is. Any other good ideas, please do share. FN 209. The additional processing time may cause weak gels in some products…. If you can do berry jam, you can do watermelon. Well I had the chance to make the strawberry & really was good.

Accessed January 2015 at https://nchfp.uga.edu/multimedia/video/nchfp.wmv jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_7452_2").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_7452_2", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); Sugar will make jams and jellies set hard because, with the quantities of sugar traditionally called for, they are essentially candy.

1992. Looks wonderful!! I just made it and it came out wonderful. We’ve seen above, required processing times tend to  longer for these products. Accessed January 2015 at https://nchfp.uga.edu/multimedia/video/nchfp.wmv jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_7452_35").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_7452_35", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); Don’t use a food processor on fruit for jam: the blade of a food processor damages the natural pectin in fruit. It’s just that good.

Place all of the jars into the very large pot of boiling water. Purified forms of stevia (such as the liquid concentrate made by Better Stevia) do not. Watermelon Jam Ingredients. I tried a little from the pot and it was delish. I’m going to give away the ending of my story and say that watermelon jam is simply delightful. This is because instead of neutralizing micro organisms with sugar, you need to kill them outright with heat. Accessed August 2017 at https://extension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/SP325-F.pdf, Garden-Robinson, Julie. I just tried watermelon preserves in Indonesia. Add the rest of the sugar when the mixture is boiling so hard that you can’t stir the bubbles away. Since developing an apple allergy I’ve had to completely give up jelly and jam due to the pectin (all commercial pectin has apple). Accessed January 2015 at https://nchfp.uga.edu/multimedia/video/nchfp.wmv. University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service.

This commercial low-sugar strawberry jam was a bright red at first in the (unopened) jars.

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Remove the rind. Also Dad said lemon spoils the flavor completely. My pectin worked out great! Learn how your comment data is processed. One is Melon Jam in the Ball All New. January 2015. Tested, safe spread recipes for low-acid foods will have had enough acid added to make them safe: You may see some tested recipes for savoury spreads or jellies being made with low acid items such as onion and pepper. Preferably, this is a 20-quart or bigger pot filled about halfway with water and heated on high til the water boils. The temperature of the mixture should be at 220 degrees F (105 degrees … How to Make Homemade Watermelon Jam. Healthycanning.com would just add the precaution that some of these new modified pectins can gel anything — even plain water. FN1423 . Blogger. Read More…, Copyright © 2020 Healthy Canning on the Foodie Pro Theme, Andrea Weigl, Canning 101: Making the most of fruits and veggies. First I used one orange and one lemon. University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension. Accessed June 2015 at https://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/FN_209.pdf jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_7452_17").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_7452_17", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); “Saccharin-based sweeteners such as Sweet’N Low, Sugar Twin, or Sweet 10 become bitter when exposed to canning temperatures…”  [18] Penn State Extension. But it still needs to cool down so I’ll see how it is. I tried this recipe and it was very thin. 27 February 2013. University of Minnesota Extension Service. Easy, delicious, and requires no canning knowledge! I then put the strained watermelon into my dehydrator on the frut roll up tray. Required fields are marked *, Hi Sarah, Thanks 4 this recipe.