{"id":183,"date":"2017-11-19T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drkarenhudes.ca\/?p=183"},"modified":"2017-11-20T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:50:08","slug":"my-moms-strawberry-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drkarenhudes.ca\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/my-moms-strawberry-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mom’s Strawberry Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So my mom passed away several years ago.\u00a0 She was my best friend and I miss her every day.\u00a0 This jam was one of her signature things – though she made the freezer jam version.<\/p>\n

We used to\u00a0go strawberry picking every year with family friends (you know who you are I and K) to Whittamore’s farm.\u00a0 We would wash, clean, store and freeze the strawberries for later use – we had a ton of it in the chest freezer in the basement and some of it would turn into strawberry jam.\u00a0 I remember almost falling into that freezer as a kid fishing out jam and strawberries.\u00a0 Good memories.\u00a0 I am smiling just typing this.<\/p>\n

I used to come home from school and return to Waterloo or Chicago with at least 3 bottles of jam…\u00a0 This past weekend I made, an properly preserved, 24 jars of my mom’s strawberry jam.\u00a0 I do it to give out at gifts for the holidays – and to eat at home… It is great on toast – or ice cream (yum!).<\/p>\n

Amazingly, Mom’s strawberry jam recipe somehow ended up on the box of pectin – wonder how that happened (ya, she wasn’t a chef but she followed recipes well – like me).\u00a0 This summer, and the one before, my son Leo and I went to Whittamore’s farm and picked strawberries – froze them like mom used to, and they went into the jam last weekend.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in doing this on your own, here is the recipe (from Bernardin’s pectin box):<\/p>\n

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