A follow up from Wordless Wednesday...

Some of you wanted to know how to make jam after yesterday's WW photo, so here's my recipe...

If you've never done any home canning here are a few tips:

• sterilize jars right before use, either in a dishwasher on sterilize setting or in boiling water on the stove, keep warm until pouring in hot jam to avoid breaking jars with temperature change
• purchase a funnel that fits inside the top of the jar to help avoid spills when ladeling in hot jam
• purchase a set of jar lifting tongs, they really are the best way to avoid dropping hot glass jars
• the box of Ball brand fruit pectin comes with a little recipe booklet inside, there are tons of jam and jelly recipes on that little booklet
• please visit http://www.homecanning.com/ for lots of useful information and recipes
• don't be afraid to mix fruits and berries, strawberry raspberry is a good combination as well as raspberry blackberry, yumm yumm!
• I do not recommend EVER trying to make orange marmalade, it is an unGodly amount of work that will leave your fingers orange for days, I speak from experience

Happy Jam Making!