What happened to my jam?

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I made some raspberry jam the other day. When I had finished I jarred it up and it set, but rather than the jelly-like texture you would expect, it has gone like treacle. :/ I'm not sure where I have gone wrong. I added the juice of a lemon, and used jam sugar with added pectin, so I don't know if I've gone over the top with the pectin (as I found out afterwards that raspberries are high in pectin!), whether it was what I added to the jam when I took it off the heat (white chocolate chips and coffee liqueur), or whether I simply haven't cooked it enough.

I am planning to make some for Christmas presents so want to get it exactly right. Thanks for your input. :)

Sabine · Accepted Answer

You definitely cooked it too long, you get this treacly effect once you've passed the setting point. Mind you, I've been making jam 20 years and I never heard of adding chocolate before - I doubt that helped. Wasn't too much pectin, I put lemon juice in all my jams to be on the safe side.

Luna. · Answer

I believe it could of been the ingredients you added last, the white chocolate chips and the coffee liqueur. the liqueur needs to be added first with the sugar, lets that bubble and it'll thicken then add the lemon and the fruit. lets it thicken then add chocolate chips. Make sure the jar is sterilised, make sure the jam as cooled off before adding it to the jar and it should be the perfect constancy

? · Answer

Sounds like you cooked it too long, watch it when cooking, put a saucer in the fridge, take out teaspoons at different times, when it sets in the saucer, its time to take it off the heat, good luck

? · Answer

i dont know try googling it. but it may have been from the heat. you have to let anything hot sit until it is cool then put toppings,pudding,icing,etc on it.

-hope this helps =)

What happened to my jam?

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