Mirabelle-Rosemary Jam

Mirabelles (also called sometimes yellow plums) are not as tart as plums can be. These small fruit goes well together with a herb like rosemary. To balance the flavors I add here vanilla, which helps to blend the flavors well without being dominating. To make it fruity I add lime juice and use again the Dr. Oetker's super gelling sugar 3:1. This sugar contains already pectin and you need on 1/3 of the fruit weight as additional sugar. The taste? I love it!

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Yields: 3-4 glasses à 200ml

Ingredients

• 720  g yellow plums (weight after pitting, see note)
• 240  g  super  gelling sugar (Dr. Oetker's, see note)
• 4  sprigs fresh rosemary (each about 2 inches long)
• 2  tablespoons lime juice
• 1⁄2 vanilla bean

Directions

1. Pit the mirabelles and weight 720 grams. Puree them to a degree you would like th fruit to be in your jam. I use the food processor for mashing.
2. Put them mirabelle puree into a suited pot and add the super gelling sugar and mix.
3. Cut the vanilla bean in half and scrap out the seeds. Put seeds aside.
4. Add vanilla bean halves and the rosemary sprigs to the fruit mixture. Bring mixture to a boil over medium high heat stirring constantly. Cook for 4 minutes strirring all the time.
5. Take from heat and remove rosemary sprigs and vanilla bean halves.
6. Add lime juice and vanilla seeds and mix.
7. Fill into prepared twist off preserving jars and close jars. Let stand for 1 minute and then turn up side down. Let stand for 10 minutes and turn over again. Let cool completely.
8. NOTE on "Dr. Oetker's Super Gelling Sugar 3:1". Dr. Oetker is a well known brand in Germany. There are several gelling sugars available. The "3:1" super gelling sugar already contains pectin and you only need 1/3 of sugar. If you can't get it, you could also use Dr. Oetker's 2:1 super gelling sugar (the use 360 g sugar). Follow the instructions on the package.
9. NOTE on "yellow plums". Use mirabelles, which are very small yellow plums. They are different from plums though. Mirabelles is not recognized as an ingredient. So I used the term yellow plums.