I just love the beauty and taste of strawberries (except those very sour ones ), have always loved admiring those lovely simple fruit... oops but my son who goes to kindergarten claims that strawberry is a flower.. quite debatable .. go ahead please :)
And when the price of strawberries started falling down, I just cudn't control my selves from buying a couple of boxes of strawberries and trying out making jam from it. I made it and we relished it and made it again too . So the following is the recipe I tried, have a look and give it a try before the season is off!
Ingredients
Strawberry puree- 1 3/4 cup ( or simply hulled)
Sugar- 1 1/4 cup
Lemon juice of one med sized lemon
Method
Place strawberry puree, sugar and lemon juice in a heavy bottomed pan, place on medium to medium high heat, stir frequently and allow sugar to melt and strawberries to cook.
To test whether the jam is ready the jam should pour from the spoon in a thread consistency else if you pour a few drops of the jam on a clean plate, it will not spread and will have the clear jam like consistency, then you know that the jam is ready.
Cool slightly, pour in a clean glass jar, cool thoroughly and refrigerate and use as required.
The above method gives you a hassle free jam in case you or your kids don't want to bite in the fruit. If you want to have teeny weeny bite make the jam without pureeing the strawberries.
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