Also, I think it is really nice to be able to give as a gift a little (or medium) jar of your own jam to people and I like to receive feedback so to make new different "tastes".
This time, I decided to just take what I had and I briefly searched what would be a good combination with gooseberry and I found out that cinnamon would have been the key ingredient to make the taste less flat.
As the previous experiment, I put a bit more fruit than sugar so that it would not be a too sweet jam. And I discovered that people do not like too sweet jams and hence, mine was quite appreciated.
Ingredients for about 1,5 kg of jam:
- 750 gr of gooseberries
- 750 gr of rhubarb
- 1 kg of jam sugar
- a tea spoon of cinnamon
I warmed up the frozen berries and the rhubarb in a big pot, without adding anything.
Once the fruits was warm and not frozen any longer, I blended the fruit, but not too much in order to leave some fruit to chew on.
I have finally added the cinnamon to the mix!
Since I was still "cheating" using the jam sugar, I simply added it and let it cook for the time written on the package. Well, if I have to be honest, in this case I accidentally left it over the heat some minute extra and burned it slightly (which however gave a nice back-taste to the jam!).
It is finally cooked! As you can see, there are some pieces of fruit that are well visible.
As usual, I sterilized the jar and then I filled it with the jam. It turned out to be a really good jam to eat with cheese.
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