Homemade Jam – A Labor Of Love From My Parents

Whenever we are back at my parents’ in Ipoh, my dad would never fail to whip up all my favorite dishes while my mum would bake cakes, bread, jam and much more.

When we were back in Ipoh last week, my dad made some peanut butter and pineapple jam.  My dad bought a large, sweet and fragrant pineapple and my mum joined hands to make the pineapple jam.

First my dad cut up the pineapple into cubes.  Then my mum blended the pineapple and put the pineapple paste into her Kenwood breadmaker.


The pineapple jam (reduced sugar) all ready inside the bread maker. Everyone loves this jam. Even Baby C who hates sweet stuff (she associates sweet stuff with her daily antibiotics) loves this jam.


My dad dry frying the peanuts in slow flame in the wok. He then painstakingly spent almost an hour removing the peanut skin under a papaya tree in our garden. Next, my mum blended the peanuts, added some groundnut oil and a dash of salt.

Labor of love – the yummilicous peanut butter and pineapple jam that my parents made for their daugther and granddaughters.

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Author: Shireen

I am a WFHM of 3 lovely girls - Alycia, Sherilyn and Cassandra. I am a health, fitness and clean freak. I am a freelance content writer and occasionally help out my other half in his food catering business. I also do product reviews and accept sponsored posts on my blogs. I hope you'll enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy sharing my day-to-day adventures and mostly boring ranting :P Welcome to my blog! :)

21 thoughts on “Homemade Jam – A Labor Of Love From My Parents”

  1. Wow!!! The jams look yummy and I like it when it is homemade jam…..You give me some good idea…I should ask my mom to prepare all those kaya, pineapple, etc jams for me before she went back…..Ha,ha…but, the problem is, I’m WM and it will take ages for me to clear all those homemade jam….

  2. oh..ya. Sorry for stupid question, but do u put it in the fridge? (The peanut butter, i.e.) The ‘off-the-shelf’ one doesn’t require refrigeration but seeing that it’s a homemade one..I assume it does? heheheh..coz I’m thinking of doing it..since it looks simple..just laborious la..

  3. Barb and Malaika’s Mum…. the pineapple jam and peanut butter can easily last 1-2 mths in the fridge. It’s preservative-free. My mum sometimes deep freezes her red bean and green bean paste/jam too and when deep frozen, the jam can last up to 1/2 year.

  4. The homemade jam n peanut butter must be extra healthy n yummy. It’s so nice to be pampered by parents even at our age, rite?
    Merry X’mas & Happy New Year to u n ur family!

  5. Paik Ling… the breadmaker can make jam too!

    Mott…. we don’t normally put the peanut butter into the fridge coz it is normally walloped within days or a week. I guess it’s better to put it into the fridge since there is no preservative.

  6. Passion Mum… no need to put water, please don’t add water!! Actually no fixed measurement for the oil. You can add any amount that you like. If you don’t add enough oil, the peanut butter will be very dry. So you have to adjust according to the consistency. If you like it smooth, then add more oil. If you want it sweet, you can add sugar to taste too.

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