Super Easy Homemade Peach Jam Recipe

 

Homemade Peach Jam

Peach Jam (Şeftali Reçeli) Recipe

Making homemade jam is a traditional event and is a super fun activity for the Turkish people. Like Turkey, all around the world, summer season covers many many different kinds of fruit. When the summer comes, all green groceries, markets and bazaars turn into colorful dress. Because, many many different kinds of fruits take their places on the shelves of groceries, markets and bazaars. Colorful fruirs spread all around the country. We buy them and consume them during the summer season. What is more? Yes! Summer season means that preparing many kinds of jams for the daily times and winter times. We, as Turkish people love homemade jams very much. You may like our homemade Strawberry-jam-recipe

When we were children. We were looking forward to our grandmothers' homemade jams. She made many kinds of jam, such as jam of apricots, strawberries, peaches etc. At that times, jams were always made in homes. Because, you didn't find any jam in the groceries at that times. 

How do you make peach jam from scratch?

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We love to prepare homemade jams very much, even there are tons of fabrication jams in the groceries, markets and you can reach them very easily. We think that; there is something special about homemade jam. The smell of fruit cooking is sweet and delicious and its flavour truly takes us back to our grandmothers' time. Generally, in season of jam, our grandmothers' kitchen was full of smell of jam and we loved it very very much. You may like our homemade Sour-cherry-jam-recipe

How to Make Super Easy Homemade Peach Jam?

In this post, we are going to share our super easy homemade peach jam recipe to you. It is very popular among the homemade jam recipes. To make the recipe of peach jam, you basically combine the peaches, sugar and a bit of lemon juice (or lemon salt) in a saucepan. Is it hard to make jam? It is very simple, super easy and not complicated.  

Don't worry, you don't late to make peach jam. Because peaches have a long growing season, we still get to very delicious, fresh and perfect peaches in markets and bazaars. So you have lots of time to use our peach jam recipe. You may like our homemade Fresh-apricot-jam-recipe

Last year we made homemade peach jam and we got many questions from the our friends, relatives and neighbours about the preparation of peach jam. 

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Maybe, you think that these questions and want to get their answers; here these are answers and the peach jam recipe tips: 

• Question: "What kind of peach can we use for the peach jam?" Answer: Generally people who cook peach jam, use ripe peaches, not over ripe, but soft and ready to eat. But, we used hard peaches for the jam and result was perfect. We recommend that use hard ones. "Do you have to peel peaches for jam?" You should peel the peaches for getting good quality jam.
• Question: "Do you have any advice on "canning safety" regarding this peach jam's recipe? She asked this question and worried it, because she heard that so many people talking about boiling jars or other cleaning processes. Answer: We don't remember that our grandmothers or moms boiling the jars. Just wash them in the dishwasher then pour the jam in them.
• Question: "When you leave the peaches, sugar and water in a large cooking pot overnight, before cooking, do you put it in the refrigerator?" Answer: No refrigerator or other cold place, just leave it on the counter.
• Question: "We wonder that why you add water to peaches and sugar mixture? We noticed that other people's recipes do not add water to peach jam." Answer: In this recipe we used hard peaches. Actually, we prefer to hard peaches for the jam and they need water. But  don't add much water, 2 Cups of water enough for the 1 kg peaches. Generally, people prefer to soft peaches for the jam, so it creates more juice and you don't need to add water. Everyone has their own way to cook. Sometimes, it changes region to region. We don't check how the others cook their own jams, we only obey our own way.
• Question: "We wonder that; would cooking the mixture 40 minutes make the jam thick enough?, how do you thicken homemade peach jam? What would happen if we cook longer period?" Answer: Some people like thick jam while some don't like it. If you cook longer it may get thicken jam. If you don't like, you can add a little bit of hot water to dilute it. 

Ingredients: Hard Peaches, sugar, water
And lemon juice or salt

Hard Peaches are perfect for the jam

Recipe of Super Easy Homemade Peach Jam Recipe

You should try our homemade peach jam recipe. Because, this beautiful peach jam recipe captures the flavour and colours of sumer season. 

Here it is our Super easy homemade peach jam recipe;

Serve: 3 - 4 Half pin jars, Preparation Time: 15-17 minutes, Cooking Time: 35-40 minutes, Cuisine: Mediterranean/Anatolian Cuisine, 

Very good family favourite;

Peel your peaches and cut them in cubes

Place peaches, sugar and water in a pot
And leave over night

Leave it overnight - not keep in 
Refrigerator overnight

You should add water because of using 
Hard peaches

1/2 Teaspoon butter for decreasing foam

Lemon juice or salt makes jam shiny

You can use lemon juice or lemon salt

Pour peach jam into clean jar while it is hot

Store in a dark and cool place or in the 
Refrigerator

Ingredients:

• Couple of (3-4 or more) Glass jars, washed well,
• 750 gr or 1 kg Hard peaches, peeled, seeds discarded, cut into medium size cubes (chunks),
• 750 or 800 gr (3 - 3,5 cups) granulated sugar,
• 2 Cups or glasses of water, (if your peaches are ripen and soft, you don't need to use water), 
• 2 Tablespoons Lemon juice or 1/2 Teaspoon Lemon salt (lemon salt or lemon juice makes your jam shiny and by the help of it, you can save your jam for a long time in your pantry), 
• 1/2 or 1 Teaspoon butter, (for decreasing foam, when your jam boiling), 

Preparation:

1. First of all, put your all ingredients on the work surface. Then, peel your peaches and cut them in cubes or any shape you like (but not thin). Then, place your peaches, granulated sugar and water in a large cooking pot. Cover the lid and leave overnight (not keep in the refrigerator overnight). 
2. The following morning cook your mixture with 1/2 or 1 teaspoon Butter (for decreasing foam) at medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves (melts). If it happens, remove the scum or foam from the surface. 
3. Keep cooking the jam mixture. Then, lower the heat to under medium heat and cook for about 25-30 minutes until the your jam become thickens. 
4. Keep cook the peaches mixture and stirring continuously to avoid boil-overs. Then, stir in lemon juice or lemon salt and cook for extra 3-4 minutes.
5. After these processes, take the pot from the heat. Then, pour your peach Jam into a clean, dry and warm jar or jars while it is still hot, then close the lid. Store in a dark and cool place or store in the refrigerator.
6. You can serve peach jam in breakfast. Especially in winter mornings, peach jam or strawberry jam or sour cherry jam and bread go well with the hot tea.

ENJOY!

Peach jam recipe

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