Jam Sugar

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yes, is it that difficult to get it in Colombia?

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Kat, fruit pectin can be made by boiling apple peels in water. Yucca starch also works very well. That is the same as tapioca in the US

Mr. Bill Somondoco

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Jam sugar is much finer than regular sugat - you might have trouble finding it.

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Thanks Bill But that will be too much work :( maybe i will have to bring it, I want to take advantage of all the fruit that grows on the farm, so i decided to start making jam, and maybe selling it, of course first i want to experiments with the farms fruits, I have mangos, guayabas, guanabana, papaya, orange, mandarina and banana ( difficult with this last one)

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my mother in law do wonderful jams and she is teaching me, also I am learning how to do Lemon curd and herbs and fruit vinegar as I also grow herbs on the farm so i can take advantage of this. This will be new in Colombia everything will be organic :)

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lemon curd is not that common, My plan is to do few and selling it but i think i have to make sure people get free samples so they know what it like. We have Marmalade in Colombia which is what they call Jam here, but they are not very nice not as the homemade ones.

At the moment on the farm we are selling eggs ( chicken and duck ), cuajada, plantains, milk and chickens, we bough some turkeys and already we have baby turkeys they are so cute but we are planning to sell them over christmas.

I don't want to go bit scale but little by little I really want the farm to make money for itself.

we started with one cow and already we own 7

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Castor Sugar - that is what it is called -

My mom is looking at doing some baking in Colombia (as a fun thing) with some of my older cousins. Johnny - do you know how available things like walnuts, allspice, etc are?

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don't think you can get castor sugar in Colombia can't you?

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No idea - but from what Leeroy is saying panela works well too...

We're trying to decide what my mom needs to take for her baking as well..

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Greg don't need the European or gringos to buy the pavos hehehe we also eat pavo on christmas too :))

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I want the pectin to preserve it otherwise it will go off in no time :(

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Your plans for your finca sound very ambitious. My finca only grows a few guavas and one dog. Neighbors do graze their cows once in a while to keep the grass down. I do expect some coffee this year too. What I really grow is tranquility and peace. Still waiting Kat! You can cerainly use maizena to thicken jams and jellys too. Have you ever had chicharon de cuajada?

Mr. Bill Somondoco

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Greg I am not thinking big scale hehe i just want to do quite few and sell them just like we do with the rest of the other products and see how it is going , I know the jars and the other stuff you can get it in Colombia , it is the sugar that i am worry about maybe i do need to bring a suitcase full of sugar :)) will that look odd? jajaja

Jhonny the pectin helps to thicken and preserve, we tried last year with just sugar, normal sugar and the jam went off in a week!

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Kat, If your turkeys get big by then I would buy one, dressed of course. My family loves my stuffing.

Mr. Bill Somondoco

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Bill so far we are doing well with the Milk, cuajada, chicken and eggs, as i said we are not doing it big scale as I am not there full time, but I am planing to spend more time on the farm and make it to produced more, i have big plans for it, it is a big farm and the farm grows so many fruit and vegetables, that sometimes many of that stuff specially the fruits get wasted.

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Johnny, If you haven't tried the Coca Cola Rice and Orange chicken don't knock them. The stuffing is made from fried onions, calados, seasonings, mushrooms and Brazil Nuts ( nueces). I have a long history in resturant management and cooking. In a Colombuian family of great cooks I am considered the best. Kat: Chicharon de Cuajada??

Mr. Bill Somondoco

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Bill never heard of chicharron de cuajada, you have to teach me how to do them, although I am not a big fan of Chicharron but my parents love it! specially my dad even though he is not allow to have it but he says he rather die of cholesterol than hunger huh!

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and this is some of the manzanos ( small bananas)

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The chicharon de cuajada is a speciality of Somondoco, unique to here. Some people are no sending it to Bogota to sell also. There is absolutely no comparison to chicharon. It is a sweet. You take pieces of very fresh cuajada ( only a few hours old) and boil it in melado for about 30 minutes.

Mr. Bill Somondoco

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Hmm I had nooo idea there was a formally named Jam sugar - have only ever used caster sugar with pectin...

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Desi I will plant those Llaneros soon but they are only for the owner heheh

Barrumundi that also is a good idea although on that one I do have to invest in more big scale equiptment, but it is not impossible I will certainly look into that specially since the farm is close to various very tourist spots, and on holiday time it is full and villavo being hot maybe a homemade Ice cream will just what they need it :)) there is not an Ice cream van or ice cream shop near only a guy who sells fruit salad inside a cut pineapple and he does well also apart from the restaurant there is not much.


Desi the thing is as I said I really want to take advantage of the thing the farm grows, and I am lucky that the part that I live in the UK still have some traditions, also there are lots of farms around here, people here grow their own stuff, potatoes, peas, tomatoes, (they use greenhouses) herbs also they do fruit vinegars, jams, pies, all sorts of breads ect, and I can learn from them, they don't do it big scale nor they have big machinery they sell their products to local supermarkets or they have their own stalls at butter markets, that is where many of my ideas come from is they can do it here and can do it better in Colombia where I have more variety and better fruits and veg

I have a very good friend who also lives on a farm she made cakes, jams, pies she is doing very well specially since her cakes are homemade using free range eggs, I can tell her to teach me some of the stuff she does.

The land where the farm is, it's a very good land it has good soil apart from Yuca, Sugar cane, Coconuts, Mangos, Guayaba, Badea, Lemos, Mandarin, Oranges, Chillies, Papaya, Pineapple, we have tried Patilla, and avocados and they are doing very well.
Another project I have got is to do a vivero, my mum has the best hands for growing plants and flowers so I told her we can start doing selling plants.

The farm is 12 acres so plenty of land there . :) oh btw we did a chilli paste, MY GOD that thing has preserve very well but it is extremely hot!!!! iwonderful with meat but you need s tiny small amount, we are planing to take it to the asaderos and see how it goes, mind that thing is only for machos!!! jajaj


Like I said everything will start in small scale and see how is it going, just try and tested the water and see.


so far with the other products we are doing well :)

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