Plum Jam Recipe {without Pectin} | Masala Herb (2024)

Published: Aug 26, 2020 · Modified: Jun 3, 2023 by Helene Dsouza

Homemade Plum Jam, all-natural without added pectins.

This is an easy french recipe to make your own fruit preserve at home.

🫙 Which plums to use to make jam?

Pick ripe fresh plums that are sweet and rich in flavor.

You can use red plums or yellow plums, like Mirabelle or Reine Claude yellow plums.

I used red plums because that's what we're growing in our garden.

Just make sure to not use rotten or spoiled fruit because one bad fruit is more than enough to spoil a whole batch of jam.

Jams prepared with bad fruits spoil faster and just don't keep that well.

🔪 How to make plum jam?

This is hands down teh fasted and easiert and most delicious way to prepare plum jam at home.

This is how it's done in France (and neighboring countries) and I thought you would appreciate a quick overview to get going.

The complete recipe with measurements is located at the bottom of this post.

Step 1

Wash fruit to get rid of impurities and cut into half to remove the stones.

Quarter fruits and place into large jam cooking pot.

Pour sugar over fruits, lemon juice and squeezed out lemon halves.

Step 2

Combine all the ingredient in the pot and heat up.

Bring the jam to a rolling boil.

Reduce heat a bit but continue to reduce jam until it appears translucent cooked.

Step 3

Blend jam to desired consistency.

Keep over heat and test if the jam is set with the help of a thermometer and/or by dropping some hot jam on an ice-cold plate.

Pour hot jam into clean sterilized jars, close with a lid and turn upside down to create a vacuum.

📜 Flavor Variations

You can enhance your jam by adding any of the following ingredients to your jam during the cooking process.

Either add as a ground spice or as whole spice but take out the spices before you blend the jam.

• cinnamon
• allspice
• ginger
• vanilla
• star anise
• green cardamom

🍱 Storing

Keep your closed unlocked jam jars away from direct sunlight, in a dry and cool environment.

If you followed all the steps to the T and if you work in a clean environment your jam will be good for more than 1 year.

Once opened, keep in your fridge.

Don't reduce the sugar quantity on the recipe. The sugar helps in preserving the jam.

If you switch sugar with honey or other natural sweetener, be prepared to consume your jam soon.

For those of you who want to add another layer of safety, you can follow my cherry canning water bath recipe.

💭 FAQs

👁️ More preserved stone fruit recipes:

• Peach Jam
• Apricot Jam also suitable for cakes
• Cherry Jam
• Home Canned Plums

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