Vanilla Lavender Blackberry Jam Recipe Made for Water Bath Canning
If you haven’t canned blackberry jam before then, you are missing out. Blackberry jam is one of our kid’s favorite biscuit toppings, right next to our carrot cake jam. I have a basic blackberry jam recipe posted on our site, and this recipe is the same but with the addition of extracts. I started researching adding extracts to canning and found that it is perfectly safe if in the right amount so I made this vanilla lavender blackberry jam.
Every late spring, I am amazed by my blackberry crop. We have two areas of the backyard where we grow our blackberries. We use an old fence post to make the trellis and have great harvests year after year. I find myself trying to outdo last years harvest like a homesteaders game.
Cost to make this recipe.
If you need to purchase all the ingredients for this recipe, then the cost could be around $28.65 or $4.77 per half-pint. The best and cheapest way to make this jam is to grow the berries and lavender and make the vanilla extract yourself. My homesteader price runs closer to $2.44 or $0.41 per half-pint. Isn’t that a tremendous price difference? I won’t make this jam without a crop of blackberries from the backyard.
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This canning recipe was taken from Ball’s Blue Book: Guide to Preserving. The vanilla and lavender was added to this recipe and was researched to be safe to add for canning. All images and text are all my own and original to One Acre Vintage Homestead – Pumpkin Patch Mountain Homestead.
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Vanilla Lavender Blackberry Jam
Cooking Methods
- Water Bath Canning equipment
- Mason Jars, Lids, and Rings
Ingredients
- 1 cup dried lavender flowers, …[$1.50]
- 2 cup water, …[$0]
- 9 cups blackberries, …[$24.00]
- 6 cups white granulated sugar, …[$1.74]
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract, …[$1.40]
Instructions
- Seep lavender in water and bring to a simmer. Reduce to ½ cup of liquid. Take off heat and set aside. If you use, lavender extract then add it when you add the vanilla extract.
- In a large pot, heat berries until they burst and mash.
- Add sugar and lavender water. Bring mixture to a boil to dissolve sugar. Cook rapidly to gelling point.
- Stir often and reduce heat when mixture thickens. Add vanilla extract.
- Prepare canning equipment, mason jars with lids and rings.
- Fill hot jam into hot mason jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace.
- Clean rims and place lids and rings on jars. Process jars for 15 minutes.