{"id":721,"date":"2011-07-30T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2011-08-23T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:10:16","slug":"foamy-jam-and-how-to-remove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/30\/foamy-jam-and-how-to-remove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Foamy jam and how to remove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While making a batch of fig jam this morning, I had a strange crossover between my love of making food and my love of drinking really good beer.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen people dealing with an excessively foamy pint by&#8230; well, never mind what they did to kill the head, but the thought that struck me is that the foam on a pint is very similar to the foam on jams. It&#8217;s a froth of proteins, sugars, and other impurities.<\/p>\n<p>Fat is the enemy of foam. It kills foam on a pint very handily. Many jam recipes say to add a tablespoon of butter to jam to kill the foam, but others then caution that the long term stability of dairy is questionable, as well as making your preserves non-veg*n friendly.<\/p>\n<p>I added half a teaspoon of olive oil to my fig jam (7 jelly jars now cooling on a cookie rack) and it killed the foam while not adding any dairy to the recipe.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing how knowledge from one area of your life can help out in another area!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While making a batch of fig jam this morning, I had a strange crossover between my love of making food and my love of drinking really good beer. I have seen people dealing with an excessively foamy pint by&#8230; well, never mind what they did to kill the head, but the thought that struck me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-can"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}