Morello cherry jam

[tricia]

I have just cooked three pounds of morello cherries and want to make jam with them. Am I right in my thinking that the only way to remove the stones now is to don rubber gloves and squish each one out? The cherries were not very large so my cherry stoner would have been useless, (it leaves too much flesh on the stones).

Tricia

[tricia]

[Tora]

I have some Morello cherries to be picked soon. Can't wait!

I use a chopstick to stone cherries (I don't have a stoner)... Just use the pointy end to push the stone out. :)

[tricia]

Spent an hour late last night squishing the stones out and made the jam this morning. It is tart and delicious - I don't like my jam to be too sweet.

Tricia

[Jitterbug]

Could you maybe post your recipe please

Jitterbug

[tricia]

Sorry, Jitterbug - my recipes wouldn't help anyone on here.

I get friends to bring me packets of Dr. Oetker Gelfix 3:1 from Germany. This is a packet of Pectin,citric acid, fructose ? and a couple of other ingredients I can't translate. It is a powder which is added to either 350g sugar or the equivalent in sweetener and 1000g fruit or 900ml fruit juice. More often than not I use sweetener because then I can treat myself to jam on my toast without having a bad conscience. (I'm always trying to find ways of eating sweet things which don't go straight  to my hips  :P).

Once I had to resort to buying direct from a German supplier, but it was horrendously expensive so now I have two friends who know what to bring me from their visits to Germany!.

Tricia