VERY picture heavy post

a few weeks ago my mom and i made strawberry jam. i finally got around to posting the pictures.

( 22 pictures and one video under here )

When life gives you too few raspberries ( Read more... )

_req_ asked me about making strawberry jam, and urban_homestead saw this in my journal and asked me to post it here. ( Read more... )

This is from Sara Paston-Williams's Beatrix Potter's Country Cooking, Frederick Warne & Co., 1991. Hill Top was Potter's farm and the jam is not from her recipe, but one she "would have liked ( Read more... )

I know I have a recipe for Bar-le-Duc jelly in one of my cookbooks, but now that I have an extra litre of currants, do you think I can find it? I've combed through all my canning books, the Larousse Gastronomique, and even - in desperation - Chateau Cuisine. Does anyone have a good recipe, or for that matter, any recipe for it? Thanks in advance!