Susie Homemaker

I ventured into the land of canning!  Ha ha ha.  For a longggg time, I have had great intentions of making homemade jam.  But I was intimidated.  When it was strawberry season, I kept up with my intentions of starting on this project but I didn't quite reach the "point" where I was ready to take on this project.  Recently, my mom has been doing lots of canning - mainly vegetables.  This inspired me to get going, along with some other motivation, so I picked up some blueberries and got to work.  Now, this is not the time of year to look for canning jars.  It seemed as though all the stores were out of cans.  My third stop, I was successful.

Some sugar, pectin, a little lemon juice and LOTS of blueberries later, I have jam!  I'm sorry to report that I don't have pictures.  A jar of dark "stuff" just doesn't look pretty.  Though I was satisfied with the end result.  I still have some adjustments to make but this was a great start.

A few more days and I'll be headed to South Dakota to see what the critics think!