Quick and Easy Strawberry Jam Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 5 cups crushed strawberries
• 6 tablespoons Ball RealFruit Instant Pectin
• 2 cups pure cane sugar

Instructions

• 1 Wash the strawberries. 
• 2 Pat the berries dry with a towel.
• 3 Stem the berries.
• 4 Slice the berries in half, lengthwise.
• 5 Once your bowl is full, crush the berries with a potato masher; or you can puree
  them with a blender.
• 6 Prep your jars, as well as the lids and bands. Make sure everything is clean and
  dry.
• 7 Stir together the sugar and pectin in a large mixing bowl.
• 8 Add the crushed berries to your sugar/pectin mixture; stir together for a good 3
  to 4 minutes, just to make sure everything's dissolved and mixed up well.
• 9 Using a jar funnel and either a ladle or small liquid measuring cup, pour the
  jam into each prepared jar. Be sure to leave about a 1/2-inch gap at the top of
  each jar to allow expansion in the freezer.
• 10 Let the jars stand for about 30 minutes, then either refrigerate or freeze. Ball
  says the jam keeps up to 3 weeks in the refrigerator and up to 1 year in the
  freezer.

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