Well I spent all of today working on canning a half dozen pint jars of sugar free strawberry jam, it was a lot of darned work. I won't know until tomorrow if the jam even set right, pretty sure it did. Canned it in my pressure cooker out on the patio after a trip to market and a ton of prep work. I had seven pounds of berries to process, they say to use a potato masher, what they didn't say was that they needed to be chopped up if you don't have a food processor, which I hated, never used, and gave away when we moved here. What the heck, I used my Wusthof processor!
Once I got everything mashed and ready to boil things speed up, and get really dammed hot! There's jars and lids to boil clean, and a big pot of strawberry mud that has to maintain a rolling boil for a full minute, then get pulled from the burner and have the Splenda stirred in. Did I forget to mention that everything gets really hot? So I'm ladling the boiling strawberry mud concoction into the still hot steaming jars because the directions say that's how to do it. No time for pics, don't believe me, watch Youtube, I'm a one-man act.
So the canning gets completed and all the gear gets wiped down and boxed up, the canner back in the shed. The pints are cooling while the days earlier mess gets cleaned up. Look at the clock, it's the Evan Williams Hour!
So to recap expenses
Strawberries...................$10.50
No Sugar Pectin............$7.40
Splenda............................A Buck?
I'll put a jar in the fridge, three in the pantry, and have a couple promised out. Thanks for lookin', I might do it again some time, might not. RAY
Once I got everything mashed and ready to boil things speed up, and get really dammed hot! There's jars and lids to boil clean, and a big pot of strawberry mud that has to maintain a rolling boil for a full minute, then get pulled from the burner and have the Splenda stirred in. Did I forget to mention that everything gets really hot? So I'm ladling the boiling strawberry mud concoction into the still hot steaming jars because the directions say that's how to do it. No time for pics, don't believe me, watch Youtube, I'm a one-man act.
So the canning gets completed and all the gear gets wiped down and boxed up, the canner back in the shed. The pints are cooling while the days earlier mess gets cleaned up. Look at the clock, it's the Evan Williams Hour!
So to recap expenses
Strawberries...................$10.50
No Sugar Pectin............$7.40
Splenda............................A Buck?
I'll put a jar in the fridge, three in the pantry, and have a couple promised out. Thanks for lookin', I might do it again some time, might not. RAY
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