{"id":3328,"date":"2013-07-07T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2013-07-07T22:09:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T22:09:16","slug":"strawberry-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were enough ripe strawberries today to have enough for a batch of jam. I really didn’t think we’d get enough to do that, but wonders never cease.<\/p>\n

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Six cups of perfectly ripe strawberries. Small size but intensely flavored.<\/p><\/div>\n

I like to make jam the old-fashioned way, without pectin, just slowly cooked and reduced to the proper thickness.\u00a0 Since I don’t use pectin I can use less sugar.<\/p>\n

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My friend told me about putting a wooden spoon across the top of the pan to keep it from boiling over. Thank goodness I remember to do so.<\/p><\/div>\n

The sugar and berries foamed so close to the top of the pan before I noticed, it would have been a sticky mess of biblical proportions.<\/p>\n

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Six little jars cooling on a tea towel. I'll put them away in the cabinet once they are completely cooled off.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was starting a loaf of gluten free bread dough, which is why I wasn’t paying quite as much attention to the jam as I should have been.\u00a0 I figured if we had some fresh jam, we need to have some bread to put it on.<\/p>\n

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Hot out of the oven. cooling on a wire rack until I can remove it from the pan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday we went up to the Cascade mountains, thinking about taking a walk on the Pacific Crest trail.<\/p>\n

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Nothing like looking up at the side of a mountain to put into perspective how puny a person can be.<\/p><\/div>\n

So, we ended up just going for a drive and a picnic on Friday instead of going for a hike.\u00a0 Maybe next time.\u00a0 The Cascade Mountains are spectacular.<\/p>\n

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On our way home stopped at our favorite fruit stand to pick up some cherries, and whatever else they had picked.<\/p><\/div>\n

The cherries we ate fresh, but they also had apricots – yummmm! and the first early peaches.\u00a0 We bought enough apricots to make a crunch, and four peaches which will go into muffins or pancakes once they get a bit riper.\u00a0 Cooking with fresh fruit is just fun stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were enough ripe strawberries today to have enough for a batch of jam. I really didn’t think we’d get enough to do that, but wonders never cease. I like to make jam the old-fashioned way, without pectin, just slowly cooked and reduced to the proper thickness.\u00a0 Since I don’t use pectin I can use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}