{"id":1096,"date":"2013-08-16T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2013-08-16T21:42:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T20:42:04","slug":"6-strawberry-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/1096","title":{"rendered":"6. Strawberry Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I made strawberry jam. I started with a kilo of strawberries.<\/p>\n

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I then added sugar. I was supposed to add half a kilo at this stage, but didn’t notice until afterwards. I added a kilo of sugar.<\/p>\n

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This went into the fridge overnight, which brought the juice out of the strawberries.<\/p>\n

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I put them in a very tall saucepan, along with the juice of half a lemon. If I hadn’t already added all the sugar, I would have added the second half a kilo now.<\/p>\n

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I boiled this for about half an hour, until it passed the crinkle test.<\/p>\n

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Then it went into sterilised Kilner jars, which were then boiled for five minutes to get the air out of them. If I’d had the right size wax discs I would have used them instead.<\/p>\n

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I took the jars out, and after a few seconds each lid gave a loud click, indicating it had sealed. I had made jam!<\/p>\n

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I also had a little jam left over, which went into another jar. I tried it the next day, and while it tastes good, it is quite hard (although still just about usable!) I had heard that strawberries don’t have much pectin in them so you should add pectin to make it set, but then other recipes said to use lemon juice instead, which I used. I guess lemon juice works just fine! Next time I won’t boil it for quite so long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I made strawberry jam. I started with a kilo of strawberries. I then added sugar. I was supposed to add half a kilo at this stage, but didn’t notice until afterwards. I added a kilo of sugar. This went into the fridge overnight, which brought the juice out of the strawberries. I put …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}