Ugh. It's hot. Really hot. I'm the kind of girl that dreams of days where the temperature is in the seventies, but this last week has been nearly unbearable in the upper 90's. I saw on the news that we had a record high of 98 degrees (yep, just like the boy band) this past Saturday. With weather this warm, I try to stay out of the heat as much as possible and cooped up inside keeping myself busy.
So, I made strawberry jam with some fresh berries my mom picked for me a few days earlier to help use up the last of the berries before they spoiled. The freezer jam was oh so simple and only required eight cups of strawberries, a bit of lemon juice, sugar to taste, and pectin to help it all gel together. It tastes amazingly delicious on a fresh piece of crusty french bread, too.
The jam will keep up to three months in the frig or a year in the freezer, but, let's be honest, I don't need anywhere near that much time to make this jam disappear.
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