Jam Jumbles Food

JAM BARS RECIPE | JAM CRUMBLE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square pan, and line with parchment paper with overhang.
• In the bowl of a food processor, add flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Also, add in white and brown sugar. Pulse it a couple of times to mix the dry ingredients.
• Add cold, cubed butter, and process until the dough looks coarse and crumbly. If you try to squeeze some dough in your hands, it should clump together. Alternatively, you can add all the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Use a fork or pastry cutter to blend in the cubed butter until you have a crumbly dough.
• Reserve 3/4 cup of the dough for the crumble topping. Pat the rest of the dough into the prepared pan. Bake the crust for 10 minutes.
• Remove the baking pan after 10 minutes. Let it rest for 5 minutes.
• Spread the jam all over the baked crust leaving about 1/8 inch space from the edges of the crust.
• Crumble the remaining reserved dough over the jam.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown. Transfer the pan to a wire rack, cool completely before cutting into squares.

FRUIT JUMBLES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spread the chopped pecans on a baking pan. Bake until fragrant, about 10 minutes. Transfer pecans to a bowl to cool.
• Cut the dried fruit, except the raisins, into 1/4-inch pieces. In a medium bowl, combine all of the dried fruit, nuts, granola, and salt; set aside.
• In a small saucepan, combine the corn syrup, butter, and orange juice. Set the pan over medium heat until the butter has melted, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in the orange zest.
• Pour the corn-syrup mixture over the fruit mixture; stir well. Set aside until completely cool, about 1 hour.
• Using a 1 1/4-inch ice-cream scoop or a tablespoon, form the cooled mixture into 30 balls. Place into paper mini-muffin cups or in a single layer in an airtight container, and refrigerate until cold, about 30 minutes. Store in an airtight container, refrigerated, up to 1 week.

JAM JUMBLES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter, sugar and a pinch of salt together, add flour. Reserve 1/3 of mixture for topping. Press remaining 2/3 of mixture into 9X13 pan. Spread jam over mixture and sprinkle reserved mix over jam. Bake, let cool cut into squares and sprinkle with powdered sugar

SPICE & VANILLA JUMBLES

Steps:

• Grease 2 large baking trays with butter and set aside. Put the flour and sugar in a bowl then stir in the beaten egg, mixed spice and vanilla. Add 50ml of water and begin to knead the mixture with your hands to bring it together, you want a firm dough so if it's still quite crumbly add a bit more water, 1 tbsp at a time until it comes together in one piece.
• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Tip the dough out onto a floured work surface and chop up into either 12 or 24 pieces (depending on whether you're making large or small ones). Put a large pan of water on the hob and bring to the boil. Roll each piece of dough into a sausage shape and make into a knot, twist or plait before lowering it into the boiling water. Leave in the water for a few seconds and when it rises to the top scoop out with a slotted spoon, shake off any excess water and put on the prepared tray. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
• Bake the jumbles for 20-25 mins or until golden then leave them to cool on the tray before transferring them to a plate or board. Dust with icing sugar before serving if you like.

JUMBLEBERRY JAM

Steps:

• Before you start, sterilise your jars and put a plate in the freezer to chill.
• Tip the berries, lemon juice and sugar into a preserving pan. Gently heat, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until the sugar has melted and fruits are juicy.
• Bring to the boil and boil rapidly for 5 mins. Remove from the heat and drop a little of the mixture onto the chilled plate. Push your finger through it; it should wrinkle and have set like jam. If it doesn't, boil for 2 mins more, then test again and, if necessary, keep repeating until it's ready.
• The top of the jam may look like it has sediment on it, but if you stir it well as it cools, it should disappear. Allow to cool and settle for 10-15 mins before ladling into sterilised jars and sealing. The jam will keep unopened for 1 year but, once opened, store in the fridge.

JUMBLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly grease two cookie sheets. Sift flour and salt into a large bowl. Set aside. With electric mixer, cream butter and add sugar gradually. To flour add very well beaten eggs, butter mixture, and seeds. Beat vigorously with wooden spoon to combine well. By hand, gently knead ingredients into a ball of soft dough. If the weather is warm and the dough is too soft to shape, you can refrigerate it for a couple of hours. Roll teaspoonfuls of the dough on a very lightly floured work surface, forming long thin ropes (about 5 inches). Roll the ropes in a plate of sugar. Place the ropes on prepared baking sheets, curling them into a circle and gently pressing ends together. Bake for 10-12 minutes until edges are very brown. Cool cookies on rack. They crisp when cool.
• Variations; The caraway seeds are unexpected and a lovely complement to this sweet cookie. For a sweet, decadent cookie, substitute toffee candy bits for the seeds. This dough can be made into little crunchy cakes by placing scant 1/4 cup portions into well buttered and sugared muffin tins.

BUMBLEBERRY JAM

Steps:

• Sterilize 6-250 ml jars by the method you choose- I put the clean jars in a 225 oven for about 20 minutes.
• Heat sealer lids in warm water until soft- do not boil.
• Combine fruits in a large stainless steel saucepan.
• Add 6 cups sugar all at once and bring to a rolling boil, stirring constantly.
• You can add 1/2 t.
• butter to reduce foaming if you like.
• Boil hard for one minute, stirring.
• Remove from heat, add pectin and stir for 3 minutes to distribute fruit.
• Pour into sterilized jars and seal.

SIMPLE JAMMY BISCUITS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Rub the flour, sugar and butter together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Alternatively, you can do this in the food processor. Add enough egg to bring the mixture together to form a stiff dough.
• Flour your hands and shape the dough into a tube, about 5cm in diameter. Cut into 2cm-thick slices and place on a large baking sheet. Space them out as the mixture will spread when baking.
• Make a small indentation in the middle of each slice with the end of a wooden spoon, and drop a tsp of jam in the centre. Bake for 10-15 mins until slightly risen and just golden. Cool on a wire rack.