Course: Pickles, Jams & Jelly
Tags: Gee
Gee's Spiced Rum Banana Jam
Serve with vanilla ice cream. Or mix with plain yogurt. Or eat it out of the jar with a spoon. You do you.
Source
Gary Marsh, 2022
Ingredients
| 3c | white sugar |
| 1 c | molasses |
| 1 c | water |
| ⅓c, 2-3 real limes | lime juice |
| 10 | borderline-rotten bananas |
| 1 tsp | cinnamon |
| ½ tsp | ginger |
| ¼ tsp | allspice |
| ⅛ tsp | cloves |
| ¾ c | rum |
| 2 tsp | vanilla extract |
| 1 pkg | liquid pectin |
Bust Out
| 6 x 250mL | jars |
| stock pot | |
| candy thermometer |
Steps
- Sterilize jars. Use a stock pot with an inch of water in the bottom at a simmer, just lay the mason jars in there on their side. When it's time to use them, fish out with tongs.
- Combine white sugar, molasses, water and lime juice
- boil to 220F on the candy thermometer
- Coarsley mash borderline-rotten bananas
- add cinnamon ½ tsp, ginger, allspice cloves and bananas,
- simmer slowly to 220F, stirring every minute or so. This will take a long time as the bananas release water and cook down.
- add ½ cup of the rum and vanilla extract, cook to 220F again
- remove from heat, add remaining ¼c rum, then add liquid pectin.
- Let cool for a couple minutes, then transfer to jars.