Home > Recipes > Quick and Easy Strawberry Jam

Quick and Easy Strawberry Jam Recipe

This is an easy and tasty way to use up a freshly picked quarts of summer strawberries. It makes about seven half-pints, so there's enough to share.

This recipe is:

Quick

[X]

Rate Quick and Easy Strawberry Jam Recipe

Click on stars to rate

Would you make this recipe again?

Write a review

[X]

Quick and Easy Strawberry Jam Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Process: 10 min.

Yield: 56 Servings

20 10 30

Ingredients

2 quarts strawberries, washed and stemmed
1 package (1-3/4 ounces) powdered fruit pectin
6-3/4 cups sugar

Directions

Crush strawberries and measure 4-1/2 cups berries into a large saucepan. Stir in pectin and bring to a rolling boil over high heat, stirring frequently. Add sugar and return to a rolling boil. Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and skim off foam. Carefully ladle hot mixture into hot half-pint jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles; wipe rims and adjust lids. Process for 10 minutes in a boiling-water canner. Yield: about 7 half-pints.

Editor's Note: The processing time listed is for altitudes of 1,000 feet or less. Add 1 minute to the processing time for each 1,000 feet of additional altitude.

Nutritional Analysis: 2 tablespoons equals 104 calories, trace fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, trace sodium, 27 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.

Originally published as Quick and Easy Strawberry Jam in Country Woman July/August 1996, p41