My friend Jack Crane wanted to make Peach Jam as a thank you gift for his teachers, and he wanted some help. Thoughtful last day of school gift, right? I planned a little field trip of my own to help Jack learn how to make Peach Jam, but I may have been more harm than help. Things didn’t go quite as we’d planned, but the day was both a lot of fun, as well as a good lesson in how to roll with it and have fun in the kitchen. We ended up making shelf stable peach compote, rather than jam, but it was truly delicious, and we had a ball. We also learned a lot about how to prep for our next canning adventure. I have to say that making Peach Jam with Jack Crane was one of my favorite days in the kitchen to date. We wanted to make low sugar jam with local peaches, so we used the recipe on the Ball low-sugar pectin. They were so beautiful and delicious that we had to sample some of them. Here’s the website: http://www.freshpreserving.com/tools/pectin-calculator# It turned out that we cut the sugar too much, didn’t cook the jam down … Continue reading →