It’s another edition of SCK Tries and I’ll be making homemade strawberry jam! This was my first time cooking jam, so I was pretty excited, to say the least.
The Original DIY
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I followed the recipe from the Little Country Cottage: A Spring Treasury book. This is also my second time trying out a recipe from the book, as I also made Easter egg chicks when I reviewed it last year.
Ingredients & Equipment
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The recipe uses metric measures and is fairly straightforward in terms of what you’ll need. Your must-haves would be strawberries (of course), lemon juice, honey, a saucepan, and a jam jar. I didn’t have a potato masher on hand, so I used a fork in place of it.
The original recipe uses 1 kg of strawberries, but I tailored mine to a much smaller quantity. I used 330 g of strawberries, 1 tbsp of lemon juice, and around 4 tbsp of honey.
Process
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I chopped the strawberries as finely as possible so that it would be easier to cook and mash them. Next, I poured the strawberries into a saucepan under low heat, then added the lemon juice and honey. Around this time, I started mashing the strawberries even further using a fork. The photo above is what the mixture looks like a few minutes after it simmers.
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The original recipe says to continue cooking the jam for about an hour. Since I used a much smaller quantity, I cooked the jam for a third of the time. I continued stirring until the mixture had smaller bubbles and become much thicker. By the end of it, this is how the mixture looked like.
The End Result
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Once the mixture is cooled, you can pour it into a clean jam jar. I didn’t have any smaller jam jars available so it doesn’t look like much, but I’m sure it’ll last me for quite some time.
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I used the jam to spread on a couple of slices of bread and had them for dinner along with some chicken and gravy. It was definitely comfort food.
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As for the taste, I ended up really liking it! I plan on using it for pancakes and making jams from other fruits such as blueberries. I’d like to note that the jam I made was a bit tart, so if you’d like something sweeter of the same quantity then you can try using 6 tbsp of honey instead.
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Along with other books in the Little Country Cottage series (also known as Little Homesteader), A Spring Treasury is available from Amazon (UK/US) and Bookshop (UK/US). I wasn’t able to review the Summer Treasury book last year as it got lost in the mail, but thankfully, I was sent a replacement. I’ll be reviewing the Summer Treasury book and recreating a recipe from it soon, so keep posted! :)
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