While visiting my family in Northern Ontario my parents and I went to a local farm to buy raspberries for my Gramma. It was the very end of the season so they weren't selling any pre-picked raspberries, we would have to go into the very picked-over fields to find them ourselves. Since it was such a nice day and we were planning to go for a walk anyway we thought we'd try our hand at it. Well, we got a little carried away, and picked more than the pint we set out to get... after an hour and a half we ended up with 9 litres of berries! After eating as many as we could, I set out to make raspberry jam.
On the drive home I looked up recipes for raspberry jam. I wanted something simple, that would have the raspberries as the main ingredient.
The most raspberry-filled recipe I found called for 4 cups of raspberries and 4 cups of sugar. I thought I'd start out with half the sugar and see if it would thicken up. And it did! So I did three batches of 4 cups of raspberries and 2 cups of sugar. I mashed the raspberries before measuring the quantities and got them quite warm in the pot before adding the sugar. It made 6 medium-sized and 3 smaller glass bottles, and it's super yummy!
Michelle! I'm happy to know you're alive and well! These pictures are fantastic. :D
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Michelle, you call this a recipe? How are we supposed to know what to do? :) I agree with Kayla, however, beautiful photos.... :)
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