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  • Makes 8
  • 90 minutes
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 7 Ingredients

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My Nanna made jam for years, and this was one of her favourites. You can't beat the flavour of home-made jam! It's delicious on toast, scones, crumpets and even in a jam sandwich.


Ingredients (makes 8 cups)

  • 2 1/2 kg Feijoas
  • 1 1/2 cups Water
  • 2 large Lemons
  • 150 grams Crystallized Ginger (finely chopped)
  • 125 grams Dried Pineapple (finely chopped)
  • Good pinch Ground Cardamom
  • 2 kg Sugar

Method

  1. Finely grate zest from lemons, and juice them. Scoop flesh from feijoas, dice flesh roughly and place in a large stockpot. Add water, stirring well, and simmer until fruit is soft.
  2. Add lemon zest and juice, ginger, pineapple, cardamom and sugar. Stir well, and bring to a gentle boil. Stir constantly until sugar dissolves. Boil for 15-20 minutes, or until a teaspoon of jam popped onto a saucer sets when cooling. Stir the bottom frequently, and make sure the heat is not too high, or the bottom of the jam will burn. Feijoas are high in pectin so this can happen quickly.
  3. Immediately pour jam into sterilized and heated (!) jars and seal. Leave to cool.

Notes

You could use a 440 gm tin of crushed pineapple instead of dried pineapple. If you do this, drain the pineapple really well, and use the juice in place of some of the water. Feijoas may be hard to find, but if you ask at your local Fruit & Veg shop, they may be able to get them for you. Or if you know some of your neighbours (especially elderly folk), ask them if they've got a feijoa tree in their garden. We're lucky enough to have a feijoa tree in our yard, so if you live in Adelaide, leave me a message and I'll contact you when the fruit is in season.

  • Is the 2.5kgs of feijoas the peeled or unpeeled amount?

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  • great recipe – i’myet to make my own jam so this may be my first

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  • An exciting recipe,it sound’ great! Thanks!


    • Exciting recipes do stimulate the cooking senses.

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  • I have never tried Feijoas – but this sounds like a great jam. Printed off and adding it to my little black book of things to try :)

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  • I will share this with my Mum. I know she’ll love it!

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  • Oh feijoas! Can’t wait to try this unique recipe!

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  • thanks for sharing this recipe though

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  • Thanks for sharing this recipe; it sounds very interesting and worth making and tasting.

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  • i don’t know what feijoa is though

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  • Never even heard of feijoa

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  • a very tasty sounding jam

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  • ohh this looks good, have not tried feijoas, must try this, thanks for sharing

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  • a very interesting jam recipe

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  • Looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!

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  • I love finding new jam recipes

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