June Mastery Challenge Round-Up: Jam
A post shared by Kristyn (@kayhey13) on Jun 29, 2017 at 7:52pm PDT
June is over (how this year is speeding by!) and so it’s time to put another skill to bed in our Mastery Challenge. This month, we focused on jam making and more than 170 of you reported in that you’d made a batch of jam (and some of you made many, many more than a single batch).
Starring jam ingredients included apricot, bacon, berries of all shapes and sizes, black currants, cantaloupe, calamansi, carrots, cherries (both sweet and tart), figs, grapes, peaches, pears, pineapple, plums, red onion, rhubarb, tomato, violets, and one lonely batch of watermelon rind jam. Strawberries were the very most popular ingredient this month, which makes sense since they are in season throughout much of the country during June.
One of the things I enjoy is seeing how deeply people are digging into each month’s challenge. Since jam making is a skill many existing preservers already know and use, I was hoping that it might lead to further exploration of unfamiliar styles of jam. I think both these graphics bear that out.
Up above, you can see that the majority of participants made more than one batch of jam. And judging from this second image, it looks like lots of people played with batch sizes and styles of preserving. I am entirely delighted.
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Berries
Raspberry Almond Jam (and more!) – BLDRNRPDX
Lavender Vanilla Bean Strawberry Jam – Fillmore Container
Classic Strawberry Jam – Thoughts and Reflections
Honey Rum Strawberry Jam – Feast in Thyme
Blueberry Jam with Crystallized Ginger – First Things First
Spiced Blueberry and Cherry Jam – For the Love of Shrubs
Strawberry Jam – Merry Meeting Menus
Strawberry Rhubarb Cheater Jam – Hip Roof Barn
Blueberry Maple Jam – Casula Mellita
Strawberry Orange Blossom Jam – Bubble Tea for Dinner
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam – My Savory Spoon
Small Batch Strawberry Balsamic Jam – Love & Wild Honey
Olallieberry Jam – East of Eden Cooking
Strawberry Margarita Jam – Cooking with Mary and Friends
Spicy Blackberry Merlot Jam – Cooking with Mary and Friends
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam with Vanilla – Les Campagnonades
Small Batch Strawberry Rhubarb Jam – mignyc
Strawberry Vanilla Jam (and more) – Carol Olsen
Strawberry Mango Jam (and so many more) – Genevieve Boehme
Mixed Berry Jam – The Yellow Apron
Wartime Strawberry Jam – Turnspit & Table
Strawberry Vanilla Jam – Grace Lee
Foraged Juneberry Jam – Celeste
Strawberry Banana Jam – Candice
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Stonefruit
Apricot Jam – She’s Almost Always Hungry
Apricot Anise Jam (plus several more!) – Jarla
Georgia Peach Jam – Brit in the South
Sour Cherry Jam – Heidi Graham
Apricot with Cherry Pit Liquor – Lindsay Murray
Sour Cherry Jam – Andrea Eat World
Cherry Butter – kelkerr
Cherry Mint Jam – Will Graves
Sour Cherry Jam – Jeanne-Marie Hagan
Apricot Cherry Jam – Kristyn
Peach Jalapeno Jam – Susie Bares
Apricot Jam – Katherine Dowdell
Apricot Moscato Jam – The Pit Stop BBQ
Sour Cherry Jam – Raya Samet
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Other Jammy Goodness
Mission Fig Jam with Orange Rind – Cookin Mum’s Culinary Adventures
Sable Black Grape Jam – Cookin Mum’s Culinary Adventures
Sunshine Jam – Cooking with Mary and Friends
Cantaloupe Vanilla Jam – Tesla Anomaly
Smoked Bacon Jam – Tandy Sinclair
Lilac and Violet Jams – Sustainable ME
Watermelon Rind Jam – My Bit of Earth
Vanilla, Rhubarb, and Earl Grey Jam – Subcultural Farmgirl
Red Onion Jam – Southern with a Twist
Tomato Jam – Shades of Bliss
Any Fruit Jam – Twice as Tasty
Vanilla Rhubarb Jam with Earl Grey Jam – Erin Woycik
Spicy, Smoky Skillet Tomato Jam – Jill Polsby
Rhubarb Ginger Jam – Ikebana Girl
Black Currant Jam with Cassis – Mauka Girl Creations
Rhubarb Vanilla Jam – Jen Cooks VT
Kiwi Pineapple Jam – Southern Fried Yankee
Mango Pear Jam – Will Graves
Black Currant Jam – Holly
Pecan Amaretto Jam – Nikki Carriere
A giant thank you to everyone who participated this month! We’re focusing on hot pack preserving in July. Stay tuned for more details soon!
Related Posts:
Cold Pack Canning for the May Mastery Challenge
Quick Pickles for the April Mastery Challenge
Raspberry Meyer Lemon Shrub
