Strawberry Jam with a Little Helper

[kathrynn]

My little Grand-daughter, Kendal...age 5...and I made some strawberry jam this weekend.  It's finally strawberry season here....so we decided to play!

We had 8 pounds of strawberries and got 8 pint jars of jam.  Used one of my Grand-Mother's recipes for the jam.

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• kathrynn
• Apr 29, 2013

Here is Kendal....she helped me wash the berries and didn't eat that many of them! 

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• kathrynn
• Apr 29, 2013

Here is a close up of one of the pint jars...forgot to get all off the foam off the top after the jam was made...but will still taste good.

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• kathrynn
• Apr 29, 2013

Here are the 8 pint jars....will be great on the biscuits this year!

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• kathrynn
• Apr 29, 2013

Here are some of the jars in my Grand-Mother's heavy canner.

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• kathrynn
• Apr 29, 2013

Sugar is cooking down...temp is rising...yummmm!

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• kathrynn
• Apr 29, 2013

Loaded down with just plain sugar! Before the jam-making begins!

Thanks for looking!  We had fun yesterday!  Gotta teach the young ones how to "put up" foods this way!

Kat

 

[woodcutter]

Nice job Kat, when she is older she won't remember her favorite TV show was at this age but she will remember this forever.

 

[daveomak]

Grandkids are so easy to teach at that age....   It's fun....   

 

[roadkill cafe]

It's great that you're passing the recipes and techniques down to her. She'll remember these times forever. Looks like she's having as much fun making it as you were. The jam looks yummy. Almost as much fun making it as it is eating it...ALMOST.

 

[oldschoolbbq]

Yeah, I love getting up on Sunday morn. with the kids and we do a Pancake and Sausage and Egg breakfast. They enjoy helping fix and cleaning up afterwards .

Joey will be my "Pit Master" in a few years and Aubrey ... who knows

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• oldschoolbbq
• Jul 14, 2012

Have fun and ...