I have never minded the work involved in preserving food in such an old fashioned way. The excitement of steralized jars in my kitchen ~ the first canning has begun with the strawberries we picked on Saturday and by Saturday night the process was finished, only to be greeted by a hungry family Sunday morning for breakfast. It was all worth the effort indeed!
The recipe as promised:
Strawberry Jam
6 cups of cored strawberries
4 cups sugar
1 ½ packages Sure-Jell
1.5 lemons squeezed
Lemon zest
Mash and cook strawberries
Mix ¼ cup sugar with 1 ½ packages of Sure-Jell – add to strawberries
Add lemon juice and zest
Bring all this to a boil
Add remaining 3 ¾ cup sugar
Bring back to boil
Skim off foam
Funnel into sterilized jars, put on lids
Put jars in water bath for 5 minutes
This should yield 6 jelly sized jars.
Enjoy! ~
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1 comments:
Those jars of jam are gorgeous!
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