Brilliant video - clear, straightforward, all the details you need, and good demonstrations of the important points. Only thing I’d have liked is to see the process of putting it in jars at the end - but that’s just because it’s my favourite part, and I love seeing the colour of the jam at the end…! Thank you :)
Googled Gooseberry jam and found this, thanks heaps. We pick them in Dec/Jan in Aus. Its a jam I remember from my childhood and I managed to find some plants a few years ago, first picking and jam coming up in the next week or so. Cant wait!!
Hi Claire, I made red gooseberry jam with gooseberrys picked from my allotment. I do not think it has set properly, As I had put most of the sugar in I tasted it and it was so sweet. Therefore I left the last little bit out, so I am guessing thats why it did not set. I done the crinkle test you suggested. I have four jars which really tasty jam. It was not at point it was not unsavable. I still have some gosberrys on the bush so might give it another go. Thank for sharing this video
Hi I made last year with 1kg of fruit & sugar and the jam was too sticky/sweet for my taste and the jam was thick & a bit sticky with a reddish hue. Perhaps the berries were too ripe? How can I make sure the jam is looser or less sticky and more tart taste? The lemon juice I did not add last year and perhaps this is the key ingredient. Good video tutorial & thanks for uploading.
Don't boil the jam for as long. The longer it boils for the thicker and stickier the jam becomes. Boil for 5 minutes, then turn off the jam while you test, then if it's not set enough, boil for another 5 minutes and so on until you get to the consistency you like. If you find the jam is too sweet for you liking, then use a little less sugar.
I've been watching your videos from Italy where after a year of house restoration I have my orto up and growing lots of veggies. I've seen many nRUclips videos but yours are the best, I love them.
Wow Italy, that's amazing! Thank you so much for watching. Sounds like a full time job restoring a house. I hope you're thrilled with the results. Enjoy growing your veg. I expect you can grow different ones that I can grow in the UK. Have a great season.
Growing pretty much the same but outside, obviously courgettes, chillies and tomatoes. Aubergines have done well thus far and I'm growing cauliflowers and broccoli for the first time. Everything seems to grow to twice the size, my pumpkins are like an outrageous science experiment. Having a bash at fennel this year too. Broad beans were very successful but the winner in the most fruiting award this year has to be cucumber. One seed from a pack from B&Q planted outside and left to scramble over the ground has yielded around 3, 10" monsters a day for the past 4 weeks.
***** I've not grown Aubergines this year, will grow again next year though. Wow those Cucumbers are amazing!! It's been a good year in the UK also, but sounds like you've had a brilliant year also. Now we're in full harvesting time. All that hard work is paying off.
Yes the little black things are the seeds, but they're very soft so they don't need to be strained off. They may get stuck in your teeth, but that's not happened to me ...yet anyway.
Good point! I ate a huge green gooseberry yesterday, and was surprised how sweet it was! Must pick them this weekend. Usually when I say this, some critter comes along and demolishes the crop within minutes.
+Ruby Gray We have parakeets in our area and they've been known to strip our fruit bushes before. Hope you managed to harvest them all and make something tasty.
How long would you say this jam would last in storage? I may make this as a surprise for someone who is away who loves gooseberries, and have them come home to quite a few jars of them ^.^
+William Webb If you sterilise your jars and lids properly they at least a year. I've had Strawberry jam in storage for 2 years before and it was fine.
Noah Lewis-Halsey I don't see why not. There is plenty of pectin in Gooseberries so the setting of the jam shouldn't be a problem. If it is, just add a bit of lemon juice.
Claire, do you water-bath can the jam for long term storage, or is it simply so good that it will all get eaten right away anyhow? Just wondering what you meant by "jar it up"? BTW, love the term "Scrummy"...never hear it before, but think I'll start putting it to good use :)
+Greg Lutz There are many ways that you can sterilise your jam jars. My mu used to wash them in hot soapy water and then put them in the oven. "Jar it up" means "put the jam in the jars". Our family has lots of strange words that we use, I'm sure you'll hear more of them in time.
Thank you. I hope you are having a very productive year. I'll make more videos soon, but we have to move into our new home first....we're nearly there.
Bless. I've just been so busy. I'm still blogging and posting on Claire's Allotment Facebook, so you can do those. I've just got back from holiday so will be blogging about that this weekend as well as tidying the garden. My courgettes seemed to grow quite a lot while I was away.
Get a life loser. It's her home...she'll be eating the product between her and her family so it's not going to be a big deal if she loses a hair in it. IF she were commercializing the jams, different story. Because you seem to have so much time on your hands to criticize others about their appearance, let's see what you look like in a "hot working environment" and them post it to you tube. Some of folks make me want to smack ya with your comments.
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Brilliant video - clear, straightforward, all the details you need, and good demonstrations of the important points. Only thing I’d have liked is to see the process of putting it in jars at the end - but that’s just because it’s my favourite part, and I love seeing the colour of the jam at the end…!
Thank you :)
Googled Gooseberry jam and found this, thanks heaps. We pick them in Dec/Jan in Aus. Its a jam I remember from my childhood and I managed to find some plants a few years ago, first picking and jam coming up in the next week or so. Cant wait!!
Thank you Claire . I’ve just made your recipe with all my gooseberries and I y tastes amazing xxx 💛
Excellent x
Thanks so much for the video on how to make a pea fence. They work great up here in Maine
Glad you found it useful.
Hi Claire, I made red gooseberry jam with gooseberrys picked from my allotment. I do not think it has set properly, As I had put most of the sugar in I tasted it and it was so sweet. Therefore I left the last little bit out, so I am guessing thats why it did not set. I done the crinkle test you suggested. I have four jars which really tasty jam. It was not at point it was not unsavable. I still have some gosberrys on the bush so might give it another go. Thank for sharing this video
Some gooseberries are sweeter than other. As long as you got the crinkle, then it should be set.
Hi I made last year with 1kg of fruit & sugar and the jam was too sticky/sweet for my taste and the jam was thick & a bit sticky with a reddish hue. Perhaps the berries were too ripe? How can I make sure the jam is looser or less sticky and more tart taste?
The lemon juice I did not add last year and perhaps this is the key ingredient. Good video tutorial & thanks for uploading.
Don't boil the jam for as long. The longer it boils for the thicker and stickier the jam becomes. Boil for 5 minutes, then turn off the jam while you test, then if it's not set enough, boil for another 5 minutes and so on until you get to the consistency you like. If you find the jam is too sweet for you liking, then use a little less sugar.
Thank you for sharing . I shall try making the jam had a bumper crop this year (4th y)
Let me know how it goes.
Thank you, I will try this. I found a gooseberry bush in the backyard of my new apartment with tonnes of berries.
They make wonderful jam.
Hi Claire.
I am growing Cape gooseberries and wondered if I could make Jam with them using the same method as you.
Many thanks
Yes it should work. They are very high in pectin so should set fine.
@@clairesallotment Thank you, I cant seem to collect enough to make Jam, I keep eating them warm straight off the plant.
@@shazzam532 I have that problem with raspberries.
You have been a busy lady uploading today. All first rate ! Thanks so much for taking the time to video and post . It is a lot of work.
Mark has been really buy up loading for me. I've filmed them, and he does the tricky bit.
I've been watching your videos from Italy where after a year of house restoration I have my orto up and growing lots of veggies. I've seen many nRUclips videos but yours are the best, I love them.
Wow Italy, that's amazing! Thank you so much for watching. Sounds like a full time job restoring a house. I hope you're thrilled with the results. Enjoy growing your veg. I expect you can grow different ones that I can grow in the UK. Have a great season.
Growing pretty much the same but outside, obviously courgettes, chillies and tomatoes. Aubergines have done well thus far and I'm growing cauliflowers and broccoli for the first time. Everything seems to grow to twice the size, my pumpkins are like an outrageous science experiment. Having a bash at fennel this year too. Broad beans were very successful but the winner in the most fruiting award this year has to be cucumber. One seed from a pack from B&Q planted outside and left to scramble over the ground has yielded around 3, 10" monsters a day for the past 4 weeks.
***** I've not grown Aubergines this year, will grow again next year though. Wow those Cucumbers are amazing!! It's been a good year in the UK also, but sounds like you've had a brilliant year also. Now we're in full harvesting time. All that hard work is paying off.
Nice looking jam..are the little black things the seeds and do you strain them off?
Yes the little black things are the seeds, but they're very soft so they don't need to be strained off. They may get stuck in your teeth, but that's not happened to me ...yet anyway.
Thanks so much. Going to follow this exactly in a month or so :)
Ooooh! If I can keep the rampant free-range chooks out of them, I may actually have enough gooseberries this year!
+Ruby Gray You may have to put a fence around either the chickens or the gooseberries. They'll like naughty children, you have to keep them separated.
Good point! I ate a huge green gooseberry yesterday, and was surprised how sweet it was! Must pick them this weekend. Usually when I say this, some critter comes along and demolishes the crop within minutes.
+Ruby Gray We have parakeets in our area and they've been known to strip our fruit bushes before. Hope you managed to harvest them all and make something tasty.
How long would you say this jam would last in storage? I may make this as a surprise for someone who is away who loves gooseberries, and have them come home to quite a few jars of them ^.^
+William Webb If you sterilise your jars and lids properly they at least a year. I've had Strawberry jam in storage for 2 years before and it was fine.
Perfect, that sounds wonderful, thank you ^.^
Do you think I could substitute the granulated sugar with coconut sugar? Also~ great video!
Noah Lewis-Halsey I don't see why not. There is plenty of pectin in Gooseberries so the setting of the jam shouldn't be a problem. If it is, just add a bit of lemon juice.
Thank you so much! I love your channel.
Claire, do you water-bath can the jam for long term storage, or is it simply so good that it will all get eaten right away anyhow? Just wondering what you meant by "jar it up"? BTW, love the term "Scrummy"...never hear it before, but think I'll start putting it to good use :)
+Greg Lutz There are many ways that you can sterilise your jam jars. My mu used to wash them in hot soapy water and then put them in the oven. "Jar it up" means "put the jam in the jars". Our family has lots of strange words that we use, I'm sure you'll hear more of them in time.
Nice gooseberries and nice jam.
I love gooseberry jam. I've got a few bushes, so hopefully next year I can make loads more.
Hello. If I want to use sugar cane, can I still use 1kg or will I need to add a bit less ? Thank you !
It will give a darker colour to the jam. Possibly you'll need to add a bit less, but it'll depend on how sweet your fruit is.
looks yummy we live in the usa and grow gooseberries
They are wonderful, I hope you try making jam.
Worked like a charm! Thank you very much for this refreshingly straight forward post :-)
Glad you found it helpful.
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Gooseberries check
Ingredients check
Awesomely helpful video thank you so very much check
Wish me luck
How did it go?
Awesome and thank you for sharing and have a blessed day
How do you get Gosseberries that BIG mine are always tiny
The bushes are about 10 years old. I feed them with Shropshire Seaweed Fertiliser and give them some well rotted manure at the end of every season.
I missed it but when do you add the lemon?
Put the juice of half the lemon in right at the beginning, just before you pour in the gooseberries.
Thanks! I saw today that my gooseberries are ripe so I need to preserve them. I'll use your recipe :-)
vmcshannon Let me know how you get on. It's really easy to make and very tasty.
Hey you are so good at what you do, thank you so much 😊 subscribed!
Thank you. I hope you are having a very productive year. I'll make more videos soon, but we have to move into our new home first....we're nearly there.
Ok ok
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Bless. I've just been so busy. I'm still blogging and posting on Claire's Allotment Facebook, so you can do those. I've just got back from holiday so will be blogging about that this weekend as well as tidying the garden. My courgettes seemed to grow quite a lot while I was away.
That "juice of half a lemon"... Is that a British lemon or an American lemon? Let's not forget you folks are on the metric system... :-)
Just half a lemon. I'm sure they're all about the same size.
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omg please do not scratch your hair on you tube and comb it.
Get a life loser. It's her home...she'll be eating the product between her and her family so it's not going to be a big deal if she loses a hair in it. IF she were commercializing the jams, different story. Because you seem to have so much time on your hands to criticize others about their appearance, let's see what you look like in a "hot working environment" and them post it to you tube. Some of folks make me want to smack ya with your comments.