Choosing Fruit for Jam

Series Summary

Since the beginning of time, bread has played an integral role in the human diet. From the Fertile Crescent Wilderness in the form of manna to the actual body of Christ to the elf delicacy keeping Frodo and Sam going as they journey haphazardly and stoically into Mordor, bread has continued to sustain Western Culture and thought and brought energy to millions upon millions, whether it be wheat, rye, corn, or barley. However, as important as bread is, bread is notorious for being plain and a little boring to eat. Fortunately there is a remedy to the plainness of this oh so important dietary legend: Fruit Jelly and Jam! Good jelly can take plain Jane bread and turn it into the belle of the ball, regardless of whether it be a basic toast or the more exotic English muffin.

In this free video series, watch as baking and pastry expert Rachel Dayan shows how to make jelly and jam. Learn how to pick fruits and ingredients, how to cut and measure fruit, how to stir jam mixture, how to cook jam and jelly, how to prepare jars and fill jars with jelly and jam, how to strain fruit for jelly and jam, and how to store jelly and jam once finished. Impress your neighbors and your friends and make toast and english muffins taste better than the best tasting food on the planet...EVER!

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Rachel Deon of Expert Village. Today I'm going to teach you how to make jelly which was one of my grandmothers special recipe. I'm going to tell you how to pick out fruit first. How to chose the fruit you like, the taste you like, and from there we're going to go to the recipe. The berries are know to be sweeter like strawberries, blackberries, the little bit sour are the plums and peaches. More sour are apricots and some kinds of cherries a little bitter is kumquat and the citric fruits. The citric fruits, the citric fruits we're not going to deal with them today because it has a whole different process of making them. Make sure which ever fruit you pick up is in season because we find any kind of fruit actually during the whole year round. But the seasonal fruits are the tastiest, the juiciest and the jellybecome best out of those fruits."