Mark Curry wrote:
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> I've never tried the freezer jam method before, and it sounds like
> a great idea. My wife never cared all too much for our cooked
> strawberry jam recipes. The color and fresh flavor are really muted
> when you cook it.

you'll likely never buy cooked strawberry
jam again. i won't.


> Does the technique work for other fruits too? Our peach tree is
> overloaded - we'll be ready to put up the fruit in a week. We usually
> just make jam preserves, but I'm thinking maybe of holding back
> a few lbs for an attempt at a freezer batch.

the recipes are on the instructions in the liquid
pectin instructions. i recall peach being one of
the options. i've never made it (don't have a peach
tree ). many years ago a friend let us harvest the
extra peaches from her tree that they weren't going
to eat. had two 4.5 gallon buckets full. made cooked
jam and we just finished the last jars of it this
year. it was still pretty good.

due to some of my food reactions i have to have
peaches/nectarines/apricots cooked in order to
eat them.


> We just did a (large) batch of olallieberry jam - great crop this year from
> some patches near the coast. They was nothing for the past couple
> of year due to the California drought.

i've never even heard of those before.


songbird