Can you believe it? –homemade strawberry preserves with only three ingredients!
This simple recipe is sweetened with grape juice and tart apples add the pectin!
Strawberry Jam Recipe
Strawberry Jam Recipe
Ingredients
- 12 Cups Fresh Strawberries Hulled & sliced in half (about 4 Pounds)
- 5 Tart Apples cored, peeled and chopped
- 2 12 ounce Grape Juice concentrate thawed
Place fruit and juice in a heavy deep stainless steel pot. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat and boil for about 25 minutes, stirring constantly and mashing fruit. I used a potato masher. Cook until gel stage has been reached. The gelling point is 220°F (104°C), or 8°F (4°C) above the boiling point of water.
You will get a lovely thick mixture.
Get your hot clean jars ready and
a canning funnel. It makes filling the jars so much easier!
Fill jars, leaving 1/4 headspace at the top of the jar. Remove any bubbles. Wipe mouths of jars with a hot clean cloth.
Place lid on jar and screw on rings just until resistance is met and then screw finger tip tight.
Place jars in a water bath, making sure they are covered at least 1 inch and cover. Bring to a boil and process for 10 minutes. Remove lid wait 5 minutes, then remove jars and cool.
It is a more tart jam, but delicious and it doesn’t have all that extra sugar!
You might be interested in my homemade jam label tutorial.
Enjoy!
This made an okay recipe but was stirring it for an hour and a half! Apples didnt breakdown as I expected they would so now I have chunks of apples in my jelly, almost like lumpy mashed potatoes – you can eat them and they might be good but its embarrassing for anyone to eat them. If I ever make this again I will either cook up my apples first or process them!
Is this freezer jam? Or can it be stored on the shelf, if so, how long? thanks
Hey can i use frozen strawberries?
Trying this today!!!!
Awesome! Some of the apples look more pink, so I wanted to make sure. 🙂 Can’t wait to try this!
Hi Ashley, I only used strawberries and apples for the fruit.
What a simple and great recipe! Question, in one of the photos it looks like there might be a 3rd fruit added….. rhubarb maybe?
This I gotta try!
This recipe made 9 half pint jars.
No pectin added, the tart apples do the trick. It does make it slightly tart, but it still makes a mean PB&J!
NO added sugar and pectin, what a great recipe. Can’t wait to taste it.
Sorry, and how many jars did this yeild?
Gotta try this, usual recipes have tons of sugar. What brand of pectin do you like, was it powder or liquid and how much did you add? Can’t wait to try it!
Can I freeze this instead of can it?
I love the idea of homemade jam without all the sugar!
Thank you for sharing, I pinned this for future reference!