My wonderful friend Mrs. B and I made strawberry jam together last week.
The kids helped and we had a blast!
Strawberries rinsed and the tops cut off. Lucky worms :)
Smashed up strawberries in my food processor..
Chopped up strawberries waiting to have the pectin and some sugar added in before cooking.
Wonderful Mrs B who stirred both large batches of jam!
A closer look! You can see it is boiling :)
The very yummy strawberry foam.
We got to this point and I found out that Mrs B had never ever canned or made jam or anything like this before!! She was amazing! I told Papa later it was like working with myself :) Like as in TWO of me! We worked very well in sync together! And we got 8 pint jars and 6.5 quart jars full of jam!
Putting it into jars! Clean hot jars, wiping the rims, putting lids and rings on and placing each jar upside down to heat the seal.
Mrs. B's finished 8 pint jars with 3 of my quart jars! Good Stuff!
A few days later I made 6.5 more quarts for a total of 13 quarts of jam.. should last us for a bit anyway!
Oh and if you are wondering about a recipe?
It's easy..
You buy a box of pectin from the store and follow the instructions :)
We both bought lite pectin which uses less sugar and then both used less sugar then they said..
which makes the jam a little runny but really easy for kids to spread :)
SUPER EASY!!!
I love easy :)
