Making Jam

I grew up on my mom's homemade jam. It is delicious! I am so spoiled by it I can stand eating store bought jam. So I started making my own jam maybe a year or two ago. Up until then I just kept making my mom give me some :) This year Marissa really helped me with it though. She cut up a lot of the strawberries, mashed the raspberries, and stirred the sugar in. We made a total of 23 jars/tubs of jam. This should last at least year - as I usually give quite a bit away as gifts. I really hope the kids will enjoy cooking and baking as they get older so I try to have them help with most meals daily even though it takes much more time and patience. Hopefully it will pay off and they will enjoy healthy foods as they grow (not that jam is "healthy"). To make all this jam it cost me only $13.00.

Marisss and Kyle cutting strawberries

The strawberry jam

We made 4 batches of jam total! 1 strawberry and 3 raspberry (thanks to all the frozen raspberries Paul's mom Sue hand picked for me last summer in Sequim and Aunt Pat gave me from her garden). They all turned out great.

Making raspberry jam

15 jars/tubs of rapsberry jam!