Today was freezer jam day. Hooray! I love the smell, the color, and, oh boy, the taste! FarmBoy and I made raspberry jam when he got home from work. We began with the pectin we had left over from last year's jam-making . . .
. . . and two flats of raspberries which I purchased from a local farmer this morning. These I washed one cup at a time in a colander . . .
. . . and smashed with a potato masher in my big measuring bowl, because it has a flat bottom.
Six boxes, half a flat, yielded exactly six cups, enough berries for two batches of jam.
Soon we had seven batches worth of smashed berries, to which sugar was added. (We kept back three boxes of berries to snack on fresh.)
It takes 5 1/4 cups of sugar to sweeten 3 cups of smashed berries, and that, plus one box of pectin, makes one batch of jam, about 7 cups.
Once the berries were smashed and sugared, I cooked the pectin, one box at a time in 3/4 cup of water, boiling it at a full boil for one minute.
Then we stirred the pectin into the sugared fruit. (These are FarmBoy's lovely arms. See why the mosquitoes won't leave him alone?)
In a short time we had lots of little jars ready for the freezer. (Just four batches more to go . . . )
Today was freezer jam day. Hooray! I love the smell, the color, and, oh boy, the taste! FarmBoy and I made raspberry jam when he got home from work. We began with the pectin we had left over from last year's jam-making . . .
. . . and two flats of raspberries which I purchased from a local farmer this morning. These I washed one cup at a time in a colander . . .
. . . and smashed with a potato masher in my big measuring bowl, because it has a flat bottom.
Six boxes, half a flat, yielded exactly six cups, enough berries for two batches of jam.
Soon we had seven batches worth of smashed berries, to which sugar was added. (We kept back three boxes of berries to snack on fresh.)
It takes 5 1/4 cups of sugar to sweeten 3 cups of smashed berries, and that, plus one box of pectin, makes one batch of jam, about 7 cups.
Once the berries were smashed and sugared, I cooked the pectin, one box at a time in 3/4 cup of water, boiling it at a full boil for one minute.
Then we stirred the pectin into the sugared fruit. (These are FarmBoy's lovely arms. See why the mosquitoes won't leave him alone?)
In a short time we had lots of little jars ready for the freezer. (Just four batches more to go . . . )
2 comments:
Ok, we have a new rule in our home. Nobody from your home can come to stay with us in our home unless they bring us a jar of cold freezer jam.
I have a new rule too. Emily must be included in this so she can make her own. I am starving for this raspberry numminess!
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