In article <STljk.99234$kx.33076@pd7urf3no>,
ellen wickberg > wrote:

> Isabella Woodhouse wrote:
> > Found 4 half pints of 2003 strawberry jam behind a box of empty jars.
> > How sad. When I opened them, they looked just as clear and bright as
> > when I made them. They even smelled good. But into the compost they
> > went. I thought 5 years was too long.
> >
> > Hopefully soon we'll have some plum jam!

> If your jam was safe to eat when you made and canned it, it should be
> safe 10 years later. The quality may have changed however.

Thank you. I will remember that for the future and to ignore all the
warnings to throw out any preserves over a year old. I knew three would
be fine... even four. But five years worried me.

Isabella
--
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
-T.S. Eliot