We were supposed to spend Sunday morning clearing out the living room for some big construction work this week, but we needed a break and made jam instead.
We have a lot of raspberry plants in our yard, some we planted and some that invited themselves over and stayed. The black raspberry plants – the surprise visitors – ripen earlier, so this batch of jam is mostly from there. We also had some leftover strawberries from earlier this summer, so we did some combination jams.
The berries are ready for action.
First we mash the berries into a fine paste…
Then we boil them in a pot with some pectin and a little bit of sugar…
Then we put the boiled goo into jam jars, which go into the canning bath for more heat…
And eventually they end up as jam. Ten half-pint jars, in fact – half raspberry/strawberry, half all-raspberry. And there are still plenty of berries to come, so we may end up making another batch.
