It did have a Jam setting - thats what got me thinking - it wasnt mine originally - and i hadnt really taken much notice of the other things it could do :rofl:until i thought about making my own bread as i,m now (i hope temporarilly) without transport and village shop gets worse i need a re-think on food stocking- So anyway i now have Jam. The recipe was from a book i picked up in a charity shop rather than from one specific too the machine,I used sugar with pectin already added (turned out to be cheaper than buying them separately anyway) -(who knew topping and tailing 900 grammes of blackcurrents would take 2 hours
)- then discovered the recipe called for a tbsp of lemon juice ( how did i miss that) - anyway didnt have any so left it out.
Attempt 1 produced something Jamish -i.e Blackcurrents in liquid - so i added a bit more sugar ran the programme again and lo and behold i got jam.
Could have done it the old fashioned way of course - the whole familly around a jam pan style of my childhood - but not so much fun with no-one to take turns stirring - and much less mess than i recall
-so this method worked pretty well in the end.
Half a bag of the sugar/pectin left - i,m waiting for the plums to ripen next.
Not too HP today though my friend who normally comes dolphin watching with me has declined this year - which means no accomodation share, and public transport -so i might not make it either - :cry:so between that and the kerputt campervan i,m starting to wish i hadnt come back.Not helped by the fact that last week i was frantically entering data into spreadsheets for a work meeting today - that turned out to not be today because today is not the first monday of the month as i had thought - confused.com