I am so thankful to have a mother who spent her childhood in the kitchen with her grandma (my great-grandma) learning to bake bread, make meals for a full house, can fruits, and make jam! These are things I will pass on to my daughters for sure.
We took about 30lbs of yummy local strawberries and turned it into 8 batches of jam, four for each of us! It was very important for me to make jam this year because my husband eats sooo much of it! I decided this soon after we got married! Every time I grocery shopped I was buying jam!!! So this was cost efficient and so much better because it is local fruit with no added preservatives. Just strawberries, sugar, and pectin. There is indeed ridiculous amounts of sugar, even when using the "light" more fruity recipe but my husbands body can handle it at this point and I consume it only on special occasions!
I did promise to take pictures so here are a few off my phone :D
Empty jars on one side, bucket of strawberries in the sink, and the full jars one the far side! Yes, this jam operation took up all my counter space! We didn't use all these jars, they were all given to me by my sister who had used them as wedding decor when she got married.
MMMMM Skimming the foam off the top! That stuff tastes sooo good!
My beautiful mommy wearing my apron!
The foamy part is her favorite too!!
These 11 jars are mine, so 4 batches of jam made this much!
It might be hard to tell but I made 4 small jars, 6 regular size mason jars, and one gigantic jar which was almost a whole batch in itself! Josh called that one his "2 week jam jar"....I hope it will last longer than that!!!
So there you have it. My jam. Yum Yum Yum! We have plans of canning pears and maybe making another kind of jam later this season!
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