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Ingredients
- 4 lbs fresh strawberries, hulled, sliced & diced
- 4 C granulated sugar
- ½ C balsamic vinegar, at least 6% acidity
- 2 T lemon juice, bottled not fresh squeezed
- 2 T vanilla extract
- ½ tsp black pepper
Balsamic Strawberry Jam
“Happiness is like jam, you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself!” The first adjectives that come to…
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Ingredients
- 6 cups Roma (Plum) tomatoes, smoked, peeled, diced (see earlier recipe)
- 2 cups Turbinado sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2/3 cups bottled lemon juice
- 2 T apple cider vinegar
- 2 T balsamic vinegar (6% acidity)
- 3 tsp smoked paprika
- 3 tsp smoked sea salt
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp smoked black pepper
- 1/8 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Smoky Tomato Jam
“A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.” Most people don’t think about using mashed tomatoes as the…
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Ingredients
- 3 pounds peaches, peeled, pitted, diced
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- 2 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
Peach Cardamom Jam
“Stop and smell the peaches.” -Anon. In northeast Texas the onset of summer signals the beginning of the peach harvest and…
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Ingredients
- 3 pounds fresh figs
- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- 1 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons black peppercorns, tied into a sachet
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla
Balsamic Fig Jam
“A messy kitchen is the sign of happiness.” Slightly Modified 07/27/22 Figs are beginning to ripen in East Texas and luckily…
