A few days ago friends of ours invited us to come and help ourselves to their blueberries. They have at least half a dozen bushes of blueberries and they were loaded! Hubby and I each brought a large basket and we began to pick. We picked and picked filling up our baskets in less than an hour! When I stood and looked at the area that we had been picking in I was shocked to see that you couldn’t even tell that we had picked any at all! And we had picked 18 pounds of blueberries!!!
We came home and looked at our bounty. What to do, what to do. We decided to make Blueberry Jam. We got out our canning books and found two recipes. The first one we made was a low sugar recipe and since Hubby has type 2 diabetes and I am a Weight Watcher, we thought this would be a good one to try.
So we measured everything out and got to work. Because I preserve things all the time, we have a good stock of glass jars, lids and rings to store our jams in. Hubby got all of those out and into their sterilizing pot, while I cooked the jam.
The first batch jelled so nicely and since we had all those berries we made a quick second batch. For the third batch we decided to try a regular jam recipe (more sugar) and that came out well too.
Soon we will have the plums and peaches to can and we will be very busy. The fruit on our trees, although not good eating fruit because of the hail damage, will make great jams and jellies. The apples I will make sauce with both for eating and for cooking with. Thank goodness for canning jars and for freezers.
Nine pounds of blueberries!! I have never made jam in my life…but I love blueberry-anything!!
YUMMY! The Jam looks wonderful and the blueberries look great too! Wish I had friends with blueberries.
Hi Mom,
Sounds great!
I am at work for a few hours, and then heading off to TX this week. M is already is Chicago, so we are both traveling this week! I was hoping to work from home before my flight today, but that did not work out, so I am a bit crazy and hectic! 🙂
Hope you have a great week! Talk to you soon!
Love,
Mandy
I HOPE you saved SOME of those beauuuuutiful berries just for eating! I’m a blueberry nut! I LOVE ’em! And mine would have gone into PIE! Although blueberry jam sounds mighty good too!
Thank you for your comment on my Monday post… about half way through writing it I started to delete it – I just wasn’t sure I really wanted to put this “out there”… but God said “you keep typing girl!”… and now I know why! SOMEbody needed to hear it — and THIS time I got to find out who! YAY! (THAT doesn’t happen very often!)
Wow, this is cool. Homemade jelly/jam is the best!!
Mmmm I bet that jam tastes wonderful 😀
mmm, I love your jam and fresh blueberries!!! Might be coming up the weekend after this to visit my friend who’s visiting from Israel…of course I’d like to see you guys, too!
It’s a pity that I live so far away, I would help to pick them up it’s one of my favourite fruit and here it costs a lot ! In England too. The prices for everything are mostly the same.
Those berries look yum, and full of juice!!! But, what are you going to do with that much jam? Is the a market stall of fair that they can be sold at??
And thanks again for the award, I was doing it when my mobile told me I had a comment (yours of course) and have completed it! There are a few crafty sites that L likes to read…
Yummmmmmmmmmmmm – your jam and jelly look wonderful, what a treat to open the fruits of summer in the midst of winter. Thank you for your comment at my blog – Tor is wonderful and I look forward to meeting Anna – thank you again for your visit.
Blueberries galore! That looks yummy! They will be so delicious later this year.