A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to buy some organic strawberries that were brought in from California. I knew exactly what I was going to do with them. Strawberry jam of course.
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Ingredients:
4 cups strawberry purée
4 Tbsp lemon juice
6 Tbsp pectin
5 1/2 cups sugar
Directions:
1. Stir lemon juice into strawberry purée
2. Whisk in pectin
3. Bring to a boil
4. Add sugar
5. Bring back to a hard boil and boil for 1 minute stirring constantly.
6. Pour into to clean jars, wipe jar rims, place lids and rings on.
7. Process in either a boiling water bath or steam canner for 10 minutes. I am a huge advocate for the steam canner. It is so much more efficient than lugging a big pot of water around the kitchen or waiting for a giant pot to boil.
*If you live at a higher altitude you will need to adjust processing time accordingly
. This recipe makes 4 pints.
Some of you might not want to use that much sugar. For us, we keep most processed sugar products out of our house, so I don't feel bad using a good amount organic sugar in our homemade jams.
Pectin jars come with instructions on them. If you want to use less sugar, get a low/no sugar pectin and follow the recipe that comes with the pectin.
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