Yesterday I went to a pick-your-own raspberries place, and picked a kilo och raspberries in two hours of slow podcast bliss, and today I made jam!
Here is the haul of yesterday:
Here is the finnished jam:
It is probably one of the most natural jams you can find, in these jars you will only find Swedish raspberries, Swedish sugar and a tiny amount of Ukrainian vodka (SLAVA UKRAINI).
The vodka was used to rinse and sterilize the jars and lids.
As a 38 years old IT guy I find that there are few men who likes making jam, so I thought I'd ask here of anyone else are making jam....
Last week, we made our annual batch of cherry preserve. We make a 3:1 fruit to sugar version, which keeps for a year in the basement fridge. And we just had the last jar open from the old run.
There was a special offer on cherries in a supermarket nearby (3.90€/kg), so we bought about six kilogram and a liter of cherry juice. Of the whole batch, only one cherry was bad. I've seen way worse.
Way smaller operation than one I've once seen on YT. As in "Usually we make 200 jars a year, but this year, we are making 500 to have giveaways for our daughters wedding" (or something like that). That was farmhouse turned factory operation level.