It's that time of year! We hit Kruger's farm stand and picked a flat of strawberries... after pondering for about 30 seconds ended up purchasing two extra flats to bring on home for jam. ho boy do we have a bit of Strawberry Jam!
With about half of our berry haul (a flat and a half), we ended up caning 18 half pints and 9 pints of Strawberry Jam!
Honestly, I just got tired, and ran out of pectin... in fact our last batch may remain a little bit soft, but still yummy. I basically used the recipe in the Pomona Pectin package, with the full 2c sugar per 4c berries.
Our actual favorite way to enjoy strawberries through the year is on strawberry shortcakes!
Fresh of course is best, but we also have also frozen several batches (we're in the process right now, so I can't say how many).
We've been putting in one quart of berries plus about a quarter cup of sugar, to get them all juicy. I've got to go and make sure that we're saving enough to enjoy fresh... we've been known to get a little too carried away putting up fruit, that sometimes we don't save enough for us now!!!
It's that time of year! We hit Kruger's farm stand and picked a flat of strawberries... after pondering for about 30 seconds ended up purchasing two extra flats to bring on home for jam. ho boy do we have a bit of Strawberry Jam!
With about half of our berry haul (a flat and a half), we ended up caning 18 half pints and 9 pints of Strawberry Jam!
Honestly, I just got tired, and ran out of pectin... in fact our last batch may remain a little bit soft, but still yummy. I basically used the recipe in the Pomona Pectin package, with the full 2c sugar per 4c berries. 
Our actual favorite way to enjoy strawberries through the year is on strawberry shortcakes! 
Fresh of course is best, but we also have also frozen several batches (we're in the process right now, so I can't say how many).
We've been putting in one quart of berries plus about a quarter cup of sugar, to get them all juicy. I've got to go and make sure that we're saving enough to enjoy fresh... we've been known to get a little too carried away putting up fruit, that sometimes we don't save enough for us now!!!
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