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On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:47:08 -0800, (Judy Haffner)
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>
> I don't think I've ever read any posts in here in regards to making jam
> or jelly, so I just wondered if anybody in here does that?
>
> If you do make your own, what kind do you make? What are your favorite
> flavors? Have any special recipes to share?
>
> Before my mother died of cancer 5 years ago, she and I would make it
> together, but I haven't made it since. Commercial brands just don't have
> near the same quality of flavor as homemade. Nothing beats a person's
> own raspberry, or strawberry jam. I haven't made a jelly roll since then
> either, as not the same with commercial jam, I don't think.
>
> Hubby use to make salmon berry jelly every year, until he was diagnosed
> with type 2 Diabetes (it uses 7 cups of sugar per batch). We would often
> give it out at Christmas, and everyone seemed tickled to get it. Neither
> of us eat much of any kind of jam or jelly anymore, but I do buy it to
> bake with, and occasionally will have a open-faced peanut butter
> sandwich with some type of jam/jelly on top the p. butter. I use it in
> a restaurant, if we are eating breakfast out, and most often I opt for
> orange marmalade.
>
I made strawberry-Meyer lemon marmalade a few weeks ago and I've been
wanting to make some sort of fancy strawberry jam ever since, but we
keep eating the strawberries before I make the jam so I've decided to
make cranberry-jalapeno jelly instead.

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