Photograph courtesy of Adam Cooper
Sunday August 17, 2008
The other day I decided to tackle our strawberry jam disaster see previous post. After S was down for her morning nap it was time to sort out the jam! We decided to just recook the lot and then add some lemon juice for pectin. The process was very slow and have to admit at one point we both looked at the strawberry syrup with doubt about it thickening up - Well it did, after 1 hour and 1/2 of cooking once the syrup came to a boil and then slowly simmering it started to become thicker, slowly we added another jar of syrup - eventually all were added into the pot.
After the jam had cooked down we let it sit in the pot for a while so we could eat our lunch before S woke up then poured the jam into the sterilized jars for processing in the water bath. S woke up towards the end so we played while J worked on the rest of the jam.
The results are below:
Yummy homemade jam on homemade bread.
18 jars of strawberry jam
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