A peach jam without pectin is cooked peach preserve or spread that can be great on your toast as well and it is a great way to preserve the fruit that has a short season. Though without skin the jam has a fruity taste like papaya jam rather than an intense peach flavor. More summer jams worth making are mango jam, cherry jam, and strawberry jam.
Ingredients
Peaches
This is only three ingredients in peach jam and the main ingredient is peach. So look for the best-tasting peach variety that has rich flavors. Few ingredients: It is a few ingredients and a simple jam recipe that is great if you are new to jam making. Small batch: A small-batch jam recipe makes it easy to store the jam in the fridge or freezer. This means you can skip canning which gets complicated for juvenile chefs. Also, make sure to use fully ripened peaches with yellow flesh. The peaches with white flesh lack pectin. You can find more information about a variety of peaches here.
Low-sugar Jam
You can’t omit sugar completely in a pectin-free jam as sugar helps it gel and also helps preservation. But you can reduce it certainly and a lot less than commercial jams. I used 1.5 cups for 2 pounds of jam which is moderately sweet and gels very well. You can go as high as 2 cups of sugar for 2 pounds of peach. Use at least 1.25 cups for 2 pounds so the jam gels easily. I recommend starting will less sugar, doing a taste test, and adding more as per taste. If the fruit is naturally very sweet you may go low on sugar. Lemon helps add flavor to the jam as well as helps activate the natural pectin in the jam.
How to make it?
Find a pictorial step-by-step of how to make Peach jam without Pectin below with pro tips. Pro tip: Lemon juice adds both flavor and helps to set the jam. Avoid adding extra lemon as peaches have a mild flavor and lemon can get over-powering. See Low Sugar Jam above for details of sugar.
Variations
I love to experiment and try new ways of making and that’s what I encourage in my readers. Here’s what else can be changed in this homemade peach jam recipe.
Spread it on toast or on the biscuit.Make a peach sauce to drizzle on ice cream or desserts.Add it to peach ice cream, just reduce sugar or condensed milk in ice cream to adjust sweetness.Make a peach drink of peach lemonade. If you use less sugar in jam you can also add this to pie fillings.You can enjoy this peach jam spoon after spoon on its own.Use it to make peach glaze for your cakes.
If you consider making a 2x or 3x batch of the recipe, the cooking time will increase. Cook on lower heat to be safe and avoid caramelizing sugar.
You can add 1 apple to the peach jam. Green apples like granny smith or slightly under-ripened greenish apples are high in pectin. Adding an apple can add more depth to the jam as well as help it set more firmly.If you like aromatic jam, cinnamon or vanilla beans can add that depth of flavor.
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