When is a jam not a jam?

If I add the sieved pulp back to the juice and then boil it up with the sugar - is this still Jam....just seedless jam?

It's easy for me to steam the fruit in my new juice steamer - takes about an hour for soft fruit. Then I'm left with a lot of quite wet pulp. I know I can use it to make cheese but surely if I just sieve it and add it back to the juice and then proceed as normal it is jam....isn't it?

I only ask because I can't find any recipes anywhere that tell you to do it this way but if you like seedless jam rather than jelly then I'm not sure what other way to achieve it.

What do you think?

Thanks for quick reply - much appreciated. I was a bit worried because when reading recipes that use the pulp they tend to call it a 'cheese' and say it doesn't keep quite as long as jam as less sugar used.
I couldn't quite get my head around why you couldn't add the pulp (sieved) back to juice and make jam with it. After all - its only had pips removed hasn't it.

Thanks for putting my mind to rest 

Well now I have mixed results for this last lot I made. I tried to sieve the pips and stones from the fruit but it was such hard work and I got very little pulp. I wish there was a machine that could do the job for you but I have searched the internet without success.

Anyway I added the pulp back to the juice and boiled it up as usual but this time it didn't really gel together and I ended up with mostly jelly except for the last jar I potted up which was very thick and more like a seedless jam.

I think it would work fine if you get the amount of pulp you need but I'm not sure I would bother again. Most of the electrical attachments or machines you can buy to de-seed fruit are specifically for apples and tomatoes. All the reviews without exception say not to try blackberries or raspberries as they either clog up the machine or even worse - break the attachments. This batch of fruit had blackberries, raspberries and sloes so it was very very seedy & stoney which didn't help 

try thinking a little sideways

Tried that but it gave me a headache 

Yes I agree in principle that is 'should' work but every review I've read (and I've looked at dozens) say that they are great for apples and toms but not blackberries or raspberries.
I'm not sure why - unless it is the sheer number of seeds/pips per ratio of fruit that clog up the mechanics. Apple and tomato seeds are bigger so maybe it works well for them but not the smaller seeds.

My first ever Jam attempt last week.. I moved onto my new lottie and picked the remaining few rasps and damsons, then some blackberries from the hedges on the site.

Added some cooking apples and coocked all till soft. Sieved it hard with a wooden spoon and had left the pips and some pulp..

.. then added the sugar and lemon juice and boiled till setting point was established.. I called it "jamelly" as its not a jam or a jelly.. more like a smooth jam but also like a jelly - does this make sense   

Delicious 

I was given 2 red currant bushes yesterday and a white bush on its way to being dug up and I will collect soon.. so more fruit for me next year to make jams and jellies.. Also have 220 strawberry plants and runners growing in pots now to be planted out in the new lottie.. may have to give some away!! Cant wait for thee fruit to start bearing - then to find people to dish it out to!! 

Yep - never have enough jars - I've been buying trays of them each year to make up the shortfall which is very annoying but I beg borrow and steal them where ever I can and never have enough.
Over 200 strawberry plants is massive - did you count them all 
Watching Monty Don the other night on Gardeners World he was spacing his new plants out about 9" apart (hubby was cracking up at this as I had insisted he plant up all of our baby plants last year packed into one bed - as "they dont mind being close together").
I was citing our local pick your own fields where they seem quite close together but now I'm a bit worried we may have squashed them in a bit. We dont have much space left now so 9" apart would probably mean only about 20 - 30 plants in our bed instead of the 50 - 60 that are presently there. But if that means they produce more fruit then that's what we will have to do.
You will need a lot of space for 200+ plants.

I know 200 is massive and a spacing of 14" all round will take up at least a 5x5mt block in my lottie... Already earmarked it for them. I give so much away.. may be a bit too ambitious but I'll do a "pick your own" for the birds If I have to!!

Jars - yes.. I'm collecting all the time for Granny to make jam but she's not doing it anymore so they are now in my loft piling up..