We picked our first round of strawberries today. They are lovely and very delicious.
besides just eating them, putting them on our salads, and making strawberry salsa (yum!), we had immediate plans to make jam. Here I am crushing the fruit:
and within moments, we had jam! It will be ready to eat once it has set for 24 hours.
Making jam really makes you think about what goes into your food. These 5 little jam jars are the result of mixing 2 cups of strawberries and 4 cups of sugar. No wonder it is so good.
And, within the time it took to make the jam, this:
turned into this:
well, not really, since it sat all night rising, but it only took a 1/2 hour or so to bake.
Now it is happy hour, so we must go find the drink to go with the jam and bread.
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