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Default Fresh vs. frozen berries

On 2019-08-06 6:22 p.m., A Moose in Love wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 2:27:23 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
>> A Moose in Love wrote: ...
>>> My cousin made a really good strawberry rhubarb jam using locally
>>> grown strawberries. Wonderful stuff. She also put in a small
>>> amount of nice bitter orange peel. But then, I've never met a
>>> jam I didn't like.

>>
>> have you ever had strawberry freezer jam?
>>
>> i don't bother making any other kind of strawberry jam now.
>>
>>
>> songbird

>
> I don't think I really know what freezer jam is. This jam can be and
> is frozen. The jar I got was freshly made, and wasn't frozen. Is
> freezer jam made in a different way than regular?
>



It is an easy kind of jam. You add the sugar to the fruit. Heat up some
water with pectin and then mix it with the fruit and put it in plastic
containers and throw them into the freezer. It produces a jam that may
be a little runnier than cooked jam but tastes more like the fresh fruit.