Homemade Strawberry Jam Without PECTIN Video- Easy DIY Strawberry Jam Recipe

Make BEST Homemade Strawberry Jam without using Pectin!!
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Every year, around early Spring, we go out to the strawberry fields & pick a mess of strawberries so we can make strawberry jam. Strawberry Jam has become, hands down, our favorite jam or jelly, & as a matter of fact, we no longer even make any other type of jam or jelly, bc we always found ourselves eating only the strawberry jam.

So here is the strawberry jam recipe we use on Cog Hill. It is from the book, "Saving the Season: A Cook's Guide to Home Canning, Pickling, and Preserving", by author Kevin West. We just absolutely LOVE this book! By far, my favorite canning or preserving book out there. Here is Kevin West's Basic Strawberry Jam Recipe:

Link to Kevin West's Book: Saving The Season:
http://amzn.to/2opjeQX
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RECIPE: Basic Strawberry Jam
Yields 2 pints

2 pounds ripe strawberries

2 1/2 cups sugar

1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice

Optional: a few scrapings of lemon zest

To get started, go shopping at a farmers market or roadside farm stand if at all possible, and seek out the smallest, reddest berries. Fragrance is a good indicator of quality, but tasting is better still. The giant strawberries favored by supermarket produce managers are not a good choice. I call them "Pamela Anderson fruit," artificially enhanced & tasteless.

Briefly rinse the berries & remove their caps. Combine with the sugar, lemon juice, and zest, if using, in a large bowl, & crush with a potato masher or your hands.
Turn the fruit-sugar mixture into a preserving pan or pot, and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring regularly. Reduce at a full rolling boil, stirring all the while, to the gel point, 8 to 10 minutes, depending on the size of your pan and the strength of the heat source.

Once a gel set has been achieved, skim if necessary, & ladle the hot jam into four prepared 1/2-pint jars, leaving 1/4 inch head space. Seal, and process in a boiling-water bath for 10 minutes.
The sugar content in this recipe is lower than in many traditional farmhouse recipes, but there's still enough for a soft-set consistency & to ensure a reasonably long shelf life once opened.

Also, do not double the quantities, at least not initially. A small batch is cheaper, faster, more manageable, & better suited to the size of standard household equipment. If you want more jars, make two small batches. I can assure you from personal experience that you'll be happier with the outcome. In fact, the more experienced I get, the more I'm inclined to do three or four jars at a time — a nice little job to knock off in an hour, rather than a labor that wrings the fun out of the afternoon.

***DISCLAIMER***
Any canning or food preservation advice given has not been evaluated by the FDA or USDA, you're encouraged to verify all canning & food preservation advice on the USDA food preservation website.

Therefore you are responsible for the results of your efforts. You're responsible to know current canning and processing recommendations. http://nchfp.uga.edu/ is a great place to find more information.

The materials contained on this Video are provided for general information & educational purposes only & don't constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter. Cog Hill farm doesn't accept any responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on information contained on this Video.

Information found on Video is meant to motivate you to make your own health & food preserving decisions based upon your own research. ****
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