A round up of fruit jams that anyone can stock their pantry with regardless if they have the backyard homestead, fruit orchard, or neither. In this post, you will get a list of fruit jams and preserves for the spring and fall season of fruits. Eating and preserving foods seasonally will feed your family all year long. Enjoy this fruit jam recipes round up!
Fruit jams are the gateway drug into home preserving and stocking the pantry with shelf stable foods. Fruit jams are easy to make and taste 100x better than what’s in the grocery store.
One small batch of each of these fruit jams below will remove Welch’s from your grocery list all year long!
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Strawberry Season
When the red berries are ripe and ready for picking flats on flats of strawberries, one of the very best ways to preserve the harvest to enjoy all year long. What better way than jam to be added to buttered toast, sourdough pancakes, and even homemade vanilla ice cream.
Blueberry Season
Strawberry, blueberry, and blackberry (likely other berries) seasons come on quick and back to back in North Carolina. Blueberries make a thick jam that tastes fantastic. Enjoy this recipe with blueberries, sugar, and lemon juice. No pectin needed.
Since it’s blueberry season, try this homemade blueberry cheesecake ice cream recipe in your ice cream maker!
Peach Season
Peaches are ready around June and July in North and South Carolinas.
Their expiration date comes on fast too!
Give these fuzzy, sweet treats appreciation by preserving them in ways to enjoy all year long. Freeze some for smoothies, homemade peach ice cream with peach puree, oatmeal this winter and of course, there’s a jam for that!
Apple Season
If the apple blossoms survive the frost, you’re in a for a late summer, early fall treat! All the apple things! Learning to appreciate eating seasonally never tasted so good.
Dehydrated cinnamon apples, applesauce (hold the added sugar, please), apple pie, fried apples, apple jam, and so very much more. My Nana eats this apple jam out of the jar with a spoon!
Make your life easier this apple season by investing in an apple peeler!
Apples are so full of natural pectin that you won’t need any to make this jam set up perfectly for spreading on buttered toast or adding to a scone.
Pear Season
Pear season and apple season overlap heavy. So prepare yourself to tackle both fruits at the same time.
Much of what you can do with apples, you can do with pears:
Pear Sauce is chosen more by my children than applesauce and then there is the pear jam (more like a preserve as well).
Try it out:
Cranberry Season
Admittedly, there are no cranberry farms near me that I am aware of but I do know cranberry season hits the grocery stores around Thanksgiving.
I will purchase organic cranberries when they go on sale to dehydrate for simmer pots as Christmas gifts, to make my own cranberry juice, and also to make Christmas Jam.
Here is my spin on a beautifully red and giftable homemade jam:
Benefits of making fruit jams in each season
Making jams from the fruits available seasonally at your local farmers markets, U-pick farms, or even in the grocery store means you have:
- a well stocked pantry
- gift options at the holidays (people adore timeless homemade gifts at the holidays)
- highest quality of fruits (grown in their season and not in a greenhouse, perfectly climate controlled)
- knowledge of exactly where your food products came from
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