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JAM

RAW MATERIALS
 Fruit pulp/pieces – 1 part
 Sugar – 1 part
 Citric acid – 0.1%
 Pectin – 1.0%

METHOD
1. Wash and clean the fruits
2. Peel the fruits and remove any seeds. For pineapple, remove the eyes and the central
piece.
3. Chop the fruit into small pieces. If necessary, the fruits could be made into a pulp in a
blender.
4. Boil on a low fire the fruit pulp/fruit pieces in a stainless steel vessel with the citric acid.
5. Mix the sugar and pectin and add into the boiling fruit pulp/pieces
6. Continue boiling (high or medium fire) until the temperature reaches 104 – 106oC.
7. Fill the jam into clean bottles, while hot and close the bottles immediately.

 6 parts of fruits will yield 10 parts of jam. Eg. 600 grams of fruit pieces will give 1 kg of
jam.
 For woodapple jam, do not add pectin, since the fruit contains sufficient quantities of
pectin. For 500 grams of fruit pulp add 515 grams of sugar and a little water.

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