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Homemade Strawberry & Balsamic Jam

Strawberry Balsamic Preserve Recipe adapted from Epicurious If it's strawberry season, you cannot NOT make this super easy strawberry jam / preserve. You kids will love it. YOU will love it! Just 4 ingredients & two bottles of delicious preserve.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course condiments
Cuisine American
Servings 2 jars

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg Strawberries
  • 3 tbsps Balsamic vinegar
  • 3 tbsps Water
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 tsp Butter

Instructions
 

  • Prepping the strawberries: Wash the berries, patted dry and slice off the tops with a paring knife. After tasting a few (this goes without saying), you'll be left with roughly 750 grams of prepped fruit.
  • Finely chop the strawberries-you'll get roughly 2 1/2 cups of chopped fruit.
  • In a heavy bottomed steel or anodised pan, put all the ingredients together, on a medium flame, bring this to a simmer.
  • The butter prevents the mixture from foaming and splattering too much or spluttering at all.
  • Simmer for 20-25 minutes, until the mixture is thick and translucent. Keep stirring off and on. Don't worry if it's still a bit flowy and it will thicken further on cooling. So, switch off before the jam turns too thick.
  • Remove pan from heat and cool thoroughly.
  • Meanwhile place two empty clean and dry glass jam jars bottles without their lids in the microwave for one minute. This is to quick sterilise the bottles.
  • Once cooled to room temperature, spoon the jams into the two jars. I'd say I got roughly two jars of 300-350 grams each. Close them tight and keep in fridge. Use within a month.

Notes

Try these jam-filled muffins for your kids at home. And enjoy the extra hugs :D
Easy Jam Filled Muffins - A perfect kiddie treat

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