Jammin'

It was raining again yesterday morning & I decided I didn't feel like going out anywhere. So I thought I'd get started on some jam making...A friend had given me some rhubarb last week & I had readied a portion of it for making strawberry-rhubarb jam. The prep work really takes longer than the actual jam making. First got the lids and rings ready. Then I got the strawberries and the rhubarb set. I had frozen the rhubarb last week; just had to crush & measure the strawberries today. Measure out the sugar, wash the jars, get out the pectin, get out the steam canner.

Here's a photo of the jam before it went into the jars--one batch is about 8 -8oz. jars--takes about 1 1/2 hrs. from start to finish.

And the finished product....Then I decided I was on a roll so I'd make 4 dozen oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! That was it for the day. Have enough strawberries to make a few more batches of jam--strawberry, strawberry-pineapple, strawberry-banana....