AWARD WINNING STRAWBERRY JAM

Our kitchen's jam has won a prize at the Canberra Show every year. It will be entered again this year.

Ingredients

3 kg strawberries, hulled and halved

3 kg white sugar

1/2 lemon, juiced

Method

Wash and sterilize 6 jam jars and lids (jars - 330g).

Place strawberries in a large saucepan and stir in the sugar.

Leave for 1-2 hours off heat while the sugar softens the fruit.

Add the lemon juice and place saucepan on stove top over medium heat. Stir constantly until fruit is soft.

Remove 1/3 of the fruit and set aside. Cook the remaining fruit until fruit is dissolved and jam coats the back of the spoon.

Divide the reserved fruit between the jars then fill each with the jam mixture from your saucepan.

Allow to cool to room temperature then seal with lids.