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A Tamworth Jam Session

What to do with our harvest of raspberries?! Freeze em? Dry em? Put em in a pie?

I thought I’d try my hand at making jam without fancy canners or machines. I would “put food by” the old-fashioned way with the pots and pans I had in the kitchen.

The following is a photo-documentation of this steamy, sweltering (but oh so rewarding) process:

1. Mash up 4 cups of fresh (off the bushes!) raspberries.

2. Heat jars, lids, and bands in a hot water bath (not boiling.)

3. Mix crushed raspberries with sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of butter to prevent foaming.

4. Heat on high until rapidly boiling.

5. Add an entire package of pectin. Boil for 1 more minute. Remove from heat.

6. Fill hot jars with jam. Finger-tighen lids and bands.

7. Wipe edges of jars clean. Submerge in hot water bath. Boil for 10 minutes to seal.

8. FINITO! Now to the presses to make labels…

9. Packaged and ready to go!

10. Farm Kittens assist.

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3dartgirl

Oh yum! Now I am officially jealous…….first the kittens, now fresh jam……you have the life girl!! I like that all of the work of canning wore poor little Chai out…..but how come her paws aren't stained with berry juice from all that labor? You'll especially love your jam in the middle of a cold January……on homemade bread toast! Thanks for sharing the pics……loved them.
bethbeverly

Belly full of jam?
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