Once a year, during the month of July, beautiful locally-grown organic strawberries are available at the Maltby Market. Last weekend, I picked up a couple of baskets of these berries so I could make some strawberry jam. I bought the last of the strawberries from the first crop, and in a couple of weeks, the second crop will be available for purchase at the market.
I've never found strawberries with such a juicy, ripe taste as these berries. They are a beautiful dark red color, and slice easily. I began my jam-making process by putting the berries into my Cuisinart and pureeing them. I added the sugar and pectin, stirred it all for three minutes, and then poured them into their sterilized glass canning jars. I adorned each jar with a flag-motif cover, and put them on the sideboard for 24 hours so the jam could set.
The next day, I took several jars of the strawberry jam to work for my friends, and dropped one off at my neighbor's house. Round One of my summer jam-making is complete!
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