Homestead Acres » strawberry jam http://homestead-acres.com Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:16:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Homestead Series Making Strawberry Jam http://homestead-acres.com/blog/recipes/homestead-series-making-strawberry-jam/ http://homestead-acres.com/blog/recipes/homestead-series-making-strawberry-jam/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:44:59 +0000 Kim http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/?p=127 [...]]]> We are starting our summer canning with strawberry jam.
Normally I use low/no sugar pectin and only add a cup or two of sugar in my recipe. However I’m out of that so I’m using up some regular pectin. This uses more sugar then I like, but considering how small of a serving you use it’s not to bad.

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How to Make Strawberry Jam

Rating: 5

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 quarts strawberries
  • 2 TBS lemon juice
  • 7 cups sugar
  • 1 packet powdered pectin

Instructions

  1. Wash and cut tops off berries.
  2. Mash berries and add lemon juice and pectin.
  3. Bring to a boil and add sugar.
  4. Boil for 1 minute.
  5. Remove from heat, stir and skim for 5 min.
  6. Ladle into jars and can for 10 min.
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