Strawberry Thyme Jam

Ingredients:
8 cups finely chopped, hulled strawberries*
iv 1/2 cups sugar
1 box liquid pectin (both packets)
1/4 loving cup lemon juice
zest from i lemon
v springs fresh English linguistic communication thyme


Directions:

Prep jars/lids for canning. Stuff the thyme into a tea ball. Secure it to i side of a large, heavy bottomed pan. Add the strawberries, sugar, lemon juice in addition to zest. Bring to a boil, stirring in addition to breaking upward whatever large chunks alongside the dorsum of a spoon until it begins to trim down in addition to thicken. Use an immersion blender if necessary (my chunks were in addition to hence pocket-size that this wasn't needed) to brand a smoother jam. Stir inwards the pectin. Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for 2-3 minutes or until it looks jammy. Fill the jars leaving 1/4 inch headroom. Process inwards the hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes.

Yield: 6-7 8-oz jars.

*About 64 oz of strawberries.

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My thoughts
Strawberries hateful jam, right? At to the lowest degree these did. We simply picked them upward yesterday but nosotros are headed out today in addition to accept a concert tomorrow black in addition to hence I know I won't move using them inwards time. Finely dicing that many strawberries wasn't terribly hard but it was made much easier (and faster!) past times this strawberry-thyme cupcakes a few years dorsum in addition to accept been waiting for an excuse to brand something alongside that combination again. Luckily it did simply likewise inwards jam shape every bit it did baked into cupcakes. Freshly herbal silent non overpowering. brand certain y'all role the tea ball  or y'all volition move angling out molten bits of leaves. I tossed approximately lemon juice in addition to zest inwards for expert measure, it isn't lemon-y tasting just but in that place is a regime annotation of tartness there.

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