It has been amazing how productive our berries were this year. Lots of raspberries and then a pretty decent Marion berry crop. My next door neighbor has Marion berries and they used to be by the fence and I took the shoots that ended up on my side and added them to my berry patch.
We planted our blueberry bushes in 2017 and they’ve never been very productive. This year: so many blueberries. I’m still picking them but we’re down to the end.
I kept throwing them in the freezer until I had enough.
I made raspberry jam, tri-berry jam, and then this weekend I made blueberry jam.
I use the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving and nothing thrills me like scooping out 6 cups of sugar and then blending it with the fruit.
It seems impossible and I stir and stir. This time I was certain it was going to be grainy but nope: it is perfectly delicious.
We are not huge jam eaters but I am putting PB&J into my rotation. A nutritionist once told me that a half PB&J is more nutritious and better for you than a granola bar. Is that true? Maybe, but PB&J is for-sure cheaper.
I filled my jam jars and I still had more so then I found a pint jar and I still had more so then I found another jam jar in the box and filled that to eat now and I still had more so I found a big jar to scrape the last of it in to eat now. We now have 16 jars of jam and 5 are pint.
Dad loves fruit jam so we will share with him.
