Plum Jam

My good friend Regina (yes, it's Mama) gave me the plums from her back garden again. Her tree is actually a bit freakish. It's very old and grows these little dark plums, and on only one branch it grows bright red ones. So, I was impelled to make bunches of jars of jam from them. I tried making different batches of each variety to find out which tasted nicer. I think I've made crumble from these in posts past. The final feeling is that the darker plum makes a more tart and complex jam (if a jam can be complex), but I love them both.

Recipe

4lbs Pitted Plums
1 Package of Pectin
8C Sugar
1/2C Water

*Finely chop fruit and add in the pectin and water
*bring to a boil and simmer 5-1omin. you may want to
use a hand blender at this point to make it smooth
*add in the sugar and bring back to a boil
*skim off the top impurities and put into jars

Make sure you give all your friends a jar, cause everyone
loves free jam.