Plum jam

Plum jam is rich and flavorful, and the perfect way to preserve plums for year-round enjoyment.

Making your own plum jam at home is a delightful way to preserve the vibrant flavors of summer. This easy plum jam recipe is perfect for beginners, requiring only a few simple ingredients and straightforward steps. The result is a homemade, delicious jam that is perfect for spreading on toast, adding to yogurt, or gifting to friends and family.

Let’s make plum jam! Even if you have never done any canning before, don’t worry! The process is much easier than you think and you don’t need any fancy equipment to do it. A large pot to submerge your jars in is really the only thing you need other than a pot to cook the preserves.

Discover 20 totally homemade jam recipes. Each preserve in this list is unique - from fruity, to sour, to sweet. Enjoy them all year round, learn more here.

How lucky am I to be on vacation a few miles away from a small roadside grove of wild plum trees? A friend who was in Northern California a few weeks ago tipped me off to the secret spot and it was our first — and now a daily — destination. The first crop came home in our in-flight dog carrier with a few extra slung in the skirt of my daughter’s dress.

In my Berkeley neighborhood this time of year, plums are falling from trees, staining the sidewalks, and making up a huge part of my fruit intake. This massive influx of plums means it is the perfect time to turn the quickly ripening fruit into jam. This cardamom-plum version in Southern Living's Little Jars, Big Flavors is an elegant extension of a basic recipe.

Easy, delicious, and takes around 4 hours to make in your slow cooker, this is hands-free, with no pectin, and no peeling plum jam is prepared with only 5 ingredients: blood plums, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and water.

Easy Plum Jam is made with sweet, ripe, juicy plums. It is the ultimate way to preserve plums to enjoy throughout the coming months.

Low Sugar Plum Jam is a fresh and fruity spread that is ideal to serve with bread, scones or toast. It uses much less sugar than traditional jam and is quick and easy to make. This small batch Plum Jam recipe is great for anyone who enjoys jam but wants to reduce the amount of sugar in their diet. #low #sugar #plum #jam #recipe

Remember those free plums we picked up the other day? Well this morning I whipped up a batch of cinnamon plum jam using a low sugar recipe. Even though I’ve canned enough jam this summer to last the next year or two, I just can’t stop trying new jam recipes when I find them. I think all Read More >>