Strawberry Jam Recipe | How to Make Strawberry Jam

This is a very simple strawberry jam recipe guaranteed to make show winning quality strawberry jam. For a more detail recipe visit http://www.my-pickles-and-jams.com/20...

I cannot understand why so many people make such heavy weather of strawberry jam. I can't remember the number of times I've seen homemade strawberry jam that looks more like molasses treacle than it does strawberry jam and doesn't taste far off it too. The biggest problem people have with any strawberry jam recipe is clinging to the idea that they have to be able to make the jam set with the unaided will. It seems to be a matter of pride that they are not going to have any outside assistance. Well let me tell you, until you let go of that notion and accept that you will have to use pectin to help your strawberry jam recipe set, you will be boiling the socks off it forever more. What is more once you have let go of that obsession you can concentrate on getting the very best flavour and colour out of your strawberry jam recipe. It is kind of perverse however, that in seeking to optimise the strawberry jam recipe for flavour and colour you do actually draw out the maximum available pectin from the fruit and hence stand a good chance of getting it to set on its own -- strange but true!

Now I make no joke when I say show winning strawberry jam recipe. This very simple technique will, I guarantee, make you the finest strawberry jam you have ever tasted and seen. What is more as long as you follow your local shows rule on presentation you are almost certain to be in the rosettes -- promise. You see, once you've stopped worrying about the set in your strawberry jam recipe, you can concentrate on keeping the temperature as low as possible for as long as possible, to extract all you can from the strawberries without letting any of the volatile flavour compounds boil away or any of the heat sensitive colours change. You'll also be pleased to know as a consequence, this strawberry jam recipe is one of the simplest preserve recipes going.