It took 3 grueling days, but we have finally completed our mission of making strawberry jam from almost every strawberry picked at the farm last week. I did sneak a dozen or so strawberries to make a virgin strawberry daiquiri for myself, and the girls and I would get handfuls for snacks. However, the majority of the strawberries were used for our many, many, many jars of strawberry jam. We ended up making 4 double batches of jam where each single batch is supposed to result in 8-8 ounce jars. As you can see we didn’t use just 8 oz. jars but had a combination of 8 oz, 12 oz, and 16 oz jars. I will say that Mike did most of the work, but I was always the sugar measurer/pourer, the lid putter onner, and the dish washer for each batch.

Here’s Mike getting ready for the first batch. He’s so proud! And, yes, he’s growing another mustache. It will be shorn very soon if I have anything to do with it. He usually tries to pull this one when he goes out of town by himself.

It takes about 2 of these bowls of strawberries for each double batch.

And the results. Just in case you’re wondering, there are 46 jars total. I really hope we don’t get sick of strawberry jam.

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