Very old jam - should I eat it?

[Riddo]

It is homemade, at least ten years old but looks and smells fine.

My attitude would be 'they don't call it Preserve for nothing'

How have you managed to keep a jar for 10 years?!

It's plum jam which no-one really likes plus I don't clear out my cupboards often enough

Taste it and see. It might be a bit crubchy at the top (crystalizing sugar) but if it tastes OK, it almost certainly IS OK.

What socks said

What socks said.

eat it. My mum regularly used to scrape a thick layer of mould off a pot of homemade jam and put it on the table and nothing bad ever happened to us. If there;s no mould then it's a definite bonus!

I'd love to know what was done when it was made, that it is now 10 years old without mould. Mine goes mouldy much quicker than that. And yes Junkie is right, you just scrape the mould off

ha ha 10miles - my jam goes off more quickly than my mum's too!

It all depends on the sugar content; I'd you don't put enough in, it goes mouldy more quickly.

Use it in jam tarts or roly poly.