It should be interesting to see how this turns out. My original plan was to make peach jam until I realized that I didn't have enough peaches left, so I moved on to apricot jam. I found a recipe to make freezer jam which seemed right up my alley, not too complex and not a big time commitment. I started by cutting my fruit and heating it with a little lemon juice per the recipe. Then I moved on to the mixing of the pectin. This particular recipe required you to boil water and then add it to a blender or food processor so that you could slowly add the pectin until it dissolves. This step seemed easy enough. Well this smarty pants read the recipe wrong and added 4 tablespoons of pectin as opposed to 4 teaspoons. The mixture in my food processor resembled taffy. Wouldn't you know that I only purchased one package of pectin so I was in a bit of a predicament. In an effort to not lose all of my apricots I got in the car and went to Jewel to get another container. The approximate time was 9:30 p.m., so I was slightly irritated by this. Thankfully I live only a few blocks from the grocery store so round trip it only took me about 10 minutes. The issue now was my original recipe was foiled because the new Pectin had a slightly different recipe. So figuring I really had nothing to lose at this point, I added some Pluot and a little apple juice, the new pectin and let it boil. The jars are cooling so that I can put some in the freezer and one or two in the fridge. We will see how it turns out. I really need to learn to read more carefully when I am doing things like this. As I was adding the pectin I thought to myself, "this sure seems like a lot of this for such a small amount of water" which probably would have been the point I should have glanced back at the recipe. Oh well, live and learn.
I'm happy to report that I tried the jam this evening and its not bad. It could have probably used a tad bit more sugar but considering it was my first time making this I would give myself 3 asparagus spears as a rating.
