Strawberry season is just around the corner in South Carolina. Having a plan to preserve fresh strawberries can mean more farm-fresh flavor year-round and less food waste. Strawberries are high acid foods and can be processed safely using a Boiling Water Canner or Atmospheric Steam Canner. For detailed information on home canning, please read HGIC 3040, Canning Foods at Home.
Yield: About 9 or 10 half-pint jars
Procedure: Wash canning jars with warm soapy water and rinse. Sterilize by boiling them for 10 minutes, and then keep the jars in hot water until they are used. Keeping jars hot will prevent them from breaking when filled with the hot product. Prepare two-piece canning lids according to the manufacturer’s directions.
Sort and wash fully ripe strawberries; remove stems and caps. Crush berries.
Combine berries and pectin and stir well. Place on high heat and, stirring constantly, bring quickly to a full boil with bubbles over the entire surface. Add sugar, continue stirring, and heat again to a full bubbling boil. Boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim.
Fill hot jam immediately into hot, sterile jars, leaving ¼ inch headspace. Wipe rims of jars with a dampened clean paper towel; adjust two-piece metal canning lids. Process half-pint or pint jars in a Boiling Water Canner or Atmospheric Steam Canner for 5 minutes at altitudes less than 1,000 feet sea level.
Source: So Easy to Preserve
If you want to avoid the canning process, strawberries can also be frozen.
Select fully ripe, firm berries with a deep red color. Discard immature and defective fruit. Wash and remove caps.
Whole Berries Syrup Pack: Put berries into containers and cover with cold 50 percent syrup (4 cups sugar, 4 cups water), leaving
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