Chocolate Cherry Jam

Submitted by Spicy Pancake

"I've been experimenting with chimerical jam recipes to try to create a working Black Forest jam. This is the closest I've come to what I want - let me know what you think!"

 

• Ready In: 2hrs
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 6 cups prepared fruit (black cherries)
• 3 unsweetened chocolate squares
• 4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 (8 ounce) box Sure-Jell
• 1⁄2 teaspoon margarine or 1/2 teaspoon butter

directions

1. Pit the cherries if necessary, then chop them up. Crush the remains thoroughly, 1 cup at a time. If using frozen berries, use both liquid and solids; they all were part of the original fresh berry. Measure 6 cups of crushed fruit into 6- or 8-quart heavy saucepan. Break the chocolate squares into smaller pieces and add them to saucepan.
2. Measure sugar into separate bowl. Mix 1/4 cup sugar from measured amount with pectin in small bowl. Stir pectin-sugar mixture into fruit in saucepan. Add butter. Bring quickly to full rolling boil and boil exactly 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Skim foam and ladle into pint or half-pint jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace and process 10 minutes in boiling water canner.

Reviews

[Megan_Jeremy_2007]

I made this jam last year. I liked it, not enough cherry flavor for me. I didn't really like the texture at first, then I found a great use for the jam. Ice cream topping, delicious! Everybody else loved it. We ended up selling it at my moms job. Thanx, will make again.

 

[annie1992_11300709]

This recipe is impossible to make as written. First, there's no such thing as an 8 ounce box of pectin, an average box of Sure Jell is 1.78 ounces or something similar. Secondly, no mention is ever made of when to add the remaining sugar. The 1/4 cup is mixed with the pectin and added, I'm only assuming that the remaining sugar is added after the mixture comes to a boil, and then returned to a boil and boiled for a minute, as is normal with SureJell and other commercial pectins.

 

[KDSCOMOX]

Very nice flavour, but very runny. It's more of a sauce than a jam. It makes a good ice cream or pancake topping!

 

[Flourgirl51]

This has a good flavor but turned out to be quite runny. I prefer a thicker jam. I think it would make good topping for ice cream.

 

[Linda Lou 713]

This recipe was very easy to make. I have had many requests for this recipe after giving jars of the jam for Christmas gifts. I have also used it as a cake filling with most wonderful results. This one is a winner!