Home Made Strawberry Jam

Author: Seymore Sinn Status: published license cc-by-nc tags: food, jam, sweets, red, toast, 0   Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

With cream cheese on wheat toast. I dream fondly of summer to come.

Oven Strawberry Jam (adapted from Nigella Lawson's hands-free raspberry jam)

1 cup white sugar
1 dry pint strawberries, chopped
2-3 Tbsp red wine (or balsamic vinegar or lemon juice, you need a little liquid and acidity)
1 tsp of fresh-ground black pepper (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Toss the chopped berries with the liquid (you can add more if the berries themselves are a little dry) and put them in a pie dish and the pie dish in the oven for a 10 minute head start. Then dump the sugar in another oven-proof dish and pop in the oven for a further 25 minutes.
Once the time is up, carefully remove the dishes from the oven and pour the hot sugar over the berries and stir thoroughly the a wooden spoon. Stir in the pepper, if using, and scrape the sticky, ruby red goo into a clean jar. Let cool completely before eating or storing. Should keep about a month in the fridge.

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