Homemade Jam

My apologies... I have still been slacking. Let's blame it on pregnancy.  However, I recently made homemade jam... the instant kind.  I made one pint of blackberry from berries we picked from our garden.  It is yum, but turned out a bit thinner than Tom wants so I will have to use more pectin next time.  I made a 3 pints from strawberries that were on sale for $1.50 a pound and I LOVE it.  If I remember, I will smear some on cream cheese on a bagel for breakfast tomorrow.  Yum!!

As for the "how to" part... well, it is VERY simple and the instructions are on the pectin package, but I will indulge a little.  I bought a single pouch of Ball instant pectin.  For each flavor, I put the fruit in my mini processor and blended until there were no more big chunks.  Then I mixed the required amounts of sugar and pectin in a bowl, stirred, and dumped the fruit in.  Then you stir some more (3  minutes I think) and pour it into the desired container (we bought cute glass jars, but those shouldn't really be frozen so we put some into tupperware for the freezer).  It takes a good 30 minutes or more to set up, but you are done!!  Freeze or refrigerate.  It is good in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.  ENJOY!!