Strawberry Jam!

This year I made 3 crystal boxes and 1 normal box (with 2 liquid packets in there). It took 18.25 jars, 4 bags of sugar, 3 boxes of strawberries, 1 blender (thank you to our neighbours across the road), 2 boxes of new caps and screw on lids and 1 new jar holder!

First batch of berries:


Best way to follow is to have it right in front of your face:


Boiling the jars - after this one I had to switch pots, next year, small older pot for the jars and bigger pot for the berries:


BEST THING EVER!


First batch - with SO much foam:


Pretty berries:


The secret... put one of these in while heating the berries and it cuts down the foam to like 2% instead of 100% foam. It's WONDERFUL! thank you Aunt Sandra for that tip!


18.25 jars full:


So pretty:


Yummy!


I've already given away about 7 jars... We may have to make another batch!!