Pecan Pie Jam
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
4 cups approximately
ingredients
- 5 cups chopped pecans (pecan pieces if buying bagged)
- 5 cups white sugar
- 5 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon almond extract
- 1⁄2 lb butter
- 5 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
directions
- In a large stainless steal or enamel pot melt the butter over medium heat, add sugars.
- Stir until sugars are melted and then add remaining ingredients, stirring frequently for around 10 minutes, or until jam reaches a golden color-you do not want the jam as dark as the pie filling.
- Ladle jam into steril hot jars leaving 1/2 inch head space, and process for 20 minutes for half pint jars in a boiling water bath, at altitudes up to 1000 feet.
- Check seals when cool.
- Keeps for up to 6 months-mine never makes it past 2, everyone eats it!
- **Thisrecipe makes"around" 4 cups, depending on the nuts, how they are chopped and if you have tamped the measuring cup down well.
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Reviews
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First how do you melt 5 cups of sugar into 1/2 lb. of butter. I really tried but ended up throwing in the rest of the pound. It still didn't melt, but stayed gritty. I really tried to give it the benefit of the doubt so I added the vinegar early to help it along. That wasn't much better, but fool that I am kept trying. It sounds so good!! I really shouldn't have done it but I went ahead and dumped ten bucks worth of pecans into the mess and kept cooking. I think I'll call it candy in a can...It needs more liquid ingredients and I'm not sure what they are. Then I got to thinking, is it even safe to can a product in a water bath canner that contains butter. It's in the canner waiting for some sort of miracle. If I can't pry it back out of the jars I'll just throw the whole mess out. I wonder how you get 5 cups of nuts into 4 cups...I ended up with slightly more than 8 cups with this recipe. I live at about 1600 feet. I'm sure that's not the problem.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Diana Adcock
Geneseo, Illinois