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I spent the day making jam yesterday...69 jars of cherry and/or strawberry jam. That should last a while
I started pitting cherries as soon as the chores were done at 7:30am and finished up around 8pm. I could have done another batch of strawberry, but I was too tired to do anymore. :surrender:
These were all from free fruit that I got in my 'chicken boxes' on Thursday (stuff the store down the road saves for me before tossing in the dumpster).
Not bad for the cost of sugar, pectin and some canning lids. I used Tattler lids for most of them, but wanted to have some jars for giving as gifts too...so those were sealed with Ball lids (still made in the USA:usaflag
. I got the pectin for .49 each on sale this spring when they were cleaning out last years stock, yippee! So altogether, I think I spent about $20 on the whole project.
I started pitting cherries as soon as the chores were done at 7:30am and finished up around 8pm. I could have done another batch of strawberry, but I was too tired to do anymore. :surrender:
These were all from free fruit that I got in my 'chicken boxes' on Thursday (stuff the store down the road saves for me before tossing in the dumpster).
Not bad for the cost of sugar, pectin and some canning lids. I used Tattler lids for most of them, but wanted to have some jars for giving as gifts too...so those were sealed with Ball lids (still made in the USA:usaflag