Raspberry Preserves

These raspberry preserves are a delicious way to preserve your raspberries.

Use dollops of these on hot buttered scones, or as a topping for cheesecake, yoghurt, ice cream, etc.

This recipe uses Pomona Pectin, so you can use your choice of sweetener such as sugar, Splenda™,  honey, agave, stevia, etc, or you can make it sugar-free.

Per 2 tablespoons, this is 52 calories when made with sugar, 41 calories with honey and 17 calories when made sugar-free.

The recipe

Jar size choices: Either 125 ml (½ cup / 4 oz) or quarter-litre (½ US pint / 250 ml / 8 oz)

Processing method: Water bath or steam canning

Yield: 4 x quarter-litre (½ US pint) jars

Headspace: 1 cm (¼ inch)

Processing time: 10 minutes

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Raspberry Preserves

Yield: 4 x quarter-litre jars (½ US pint / 8 oz / 250 ml)

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Raspberries

Prep Time 35 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Yield 4 quarter-litre jars (½ US pint / 8 oz / 250 ml)

Calories 17 kcal

Ingredients

• 1 kg raspberries (2 ¼ lbs / 8 cups)
• 4 tablespoons water
• 2 teaspoons Pomona pectin
• 300 g sugar (white. 1 ½ cups / 12 oz)
• 2 teaspoons calcium water (see notes)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

1. IF YOU HAVE FRESH RASPBERRIES: Remove and discard stems and damaged berries. Wash. Put in large pot.
2. IF YOU HAVE FROZEN BERRIES: Zap for 4 to 5 minutes in microwave. Then put in pot (even if some are still iced up), along with all juice.
3. Add water, stir carefully.
4. Raise heat to high, bring to a boil, then cover pot, lower heat and simmer for 2 minutes. If using fresh, they should start to release their juice.
5. Remove from heat.
6. Take 6 tablespoons of liquid from the pot, put in a bowl.
7. Whisk in the pectin powder all at once and then either the sugar or liquid stevia or honey, set aside.
8. Add the calcium water to the pot.
9. Return pot to the heat.
10. Bring back to the boil.
11. Add the pectin powder mixture a dollop at a time, stirring after each dollop to dissolve.
12. Let cook for another 1 to 2 minutes when all the pectin mixture is in.
13. Remove from heat.
14. Ladle into 125 ml (4 oz) or quarter-litre (½ US pint / 8 oz) jars.
15. Leave 1 cm ( ¼ inch) headspace.
16. Debubble, adjust headspace.
17. Wipe jar rims.
18. Put lids on.
19. Process in a water bath or steam canner.
20. Process either size jars for 10 minutes; increase time as needed for your altitude.

Reference information

How to water bath process.

How to steam can.

When water-bath canning or steam canning, you must adjust the processing time for your altitude.

For stevia, Better Stevia liquid stevia was the liquid stevia used.

Information about Pomona pectin.

More information about Sugar and Salt-Free Canning in general.

Recipe notes

• The raspberries will crumble on you no matter how careful you try to be in stirring them.
• Pomona refers to this as a preserve rather than a jam.
• Pomona pectin comes with a small pouch of powdered calcium for you to mix with water to make calcium water.
• The pectin powder will clump if you just mix it straight in; that’s why you mix it with something first.
• If you are using liquid stevia, how much stevia you need will depend on the tastes of your crowd and how sweet / tart that particular batch of fruit was. Try the indicated amount first, then if you want sweeter add ½ teaspoon at a time.
• Instead of the white sugar, you could use the same volume amount of Splenda®, OR 175 ml honey (¾ cup / 6 oz) OR 2 teaspoons liquid stevia
• To use other alternative sweeteners such as agave, etc, contact Pomona directly to inquire about amounts they would suggest and how to incorporate.

Recipe source

Raspberry Preserves. In: Duffy, Allison Carroll. Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin. Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press. 2013. Page 113.

Nutrition information

With sugar

Per 2 tablespoons:

• 52 calories, 6 mg sodium

With honey

Per 2 tablespoons:

• 41 calories, 6 mg sodium

Sugar-free version with liquid stevia

Per 2 tablespoons:

• 17 calories, 6 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 2 tablespoons, 0 points; 3 to 8 tablespoons, 1 point; 9 to 14 tablespoons, 2 points

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

* Better Stevia ® is a registered trademark of the NOW Foods Company.