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April 4, 2013 by brenna 27 Comments

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Last week I talked about all the spring time fun our family was having. One of which was making this amazing strawberry jam. The jam cooks all day, and makes your house smell heavenly. It was such a simple recipe to follow. I placed it into the oven, and beside coming back to it to stir occasionally, therewasn’tmuch to it.

I found this Oven Strawberry Jam recipe in a book called Small- Batch Preserving. which has become I little treasure in our cookbook collection. The idea of making small batch as a beginner at canning/ preserving is some what freeing. Because if I mess up or don’t like something about it, I don’t have 20 jars to figure out what to do with.

Ingredients:

8 cups halved or quartered strawberries
4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice

Instructions:

Combine strawberries and sugar, add to a large saucepan. Let sit for 2 hours, stirring several times.
Add lemon juice and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat and boil gently for about 10 minutes.
Pour into 2 (13 x 9-inch) glass baking dishes and place in oven at 150 degrees. Stir occasionally. Let cook for 10 hours, or until mixture thickens to a gel consistency.
Ladle into sterilized jars and process as desired.

If you would like to preserve yours using the water bath canning method (which is what I did), here is a shortvideowith somemore information.

This jam recipe require you leave about an 1/2 in head space when canning.

Have you ever tried Canning before? I would love to hear your tips.

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Carrie @ My Favorite Finds
April 5, 2013 at 10:34 AM
I seriously LOVE strawberry jam! I need to learn to make it myself. It looks awesome! Especially on homemade bread 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing at Pinworthy Projects!
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- brenna
  April 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM
  Thanks for stopping by, Carrie.
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Rachel @ I Love My Disorganized Life
April 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM
This looks really good, Brenna! My husband and son love strawberry jam. I never wanted to make a ton of it either, that’s why I never tried. Plus the whole water bath thing makes me nervous. Is it easy to do? Does it take any special equipment?
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- brenna
  April 5, 2013 at 5:44 PM
  No, it really doesn’t. We bought out Our Water Bath Canner at Walmart (but, a big pot would work just the same) for around $18 I think, and it came with the basket to lift the jars out. Besides a big pot the only other thing you should have is a funnel. It really is easy. I was very nervous at first too. If you decide not to can it, you could always freeze it.
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Starr @ The Kiefer Cottage
April 5, 2013 at 11:35 AM
I love strawberry jam and made some earlier this week. It set way too hard this time (despite doing it the SAME WAY!) so now it’s more like fruit leather. Anywho, I have more berries and I’m glad to have this recipe instead–i’ll just pop it into the freezer afterward so I don’t have to bother with processing.
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- brenna
  April 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM
  That is a great idea about freezing it. Much less hassle.
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Linda
April 5, 2013 at 2:53 PM
This looks wonderful. I have to do this. So easy.
We are having a party at Tumbleweed Contessa with Hammock Tracks (Savannah) and Call Me PMC (Paula). I’d love it if you could bring this over.
The party goes live on Saturday morning – Saturday Dishes – featuring strawberries this week. http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com/blog
I’d love it if you would bring this over tomorrow.
Linda
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- brenna
  April 5, 2013 at 5:38 PM
  Thanks for the invite, Linda. I will be away from the computer tomorrow, but I will try to link up on my phone.
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Hezzi-D
April 5, 2013 at 5:47 PM
I LOVE canning. I have a lot of recipes for it and my 2 favorite books are my Ball books. My favorites in the past year were cherry Amaretto jam, vegetable salsa, and spice honey. I enjoy canning because I make everything in the summer then enjoy fresh fruits, spreads, salsa, etc. all year round. This jam looks yummy!
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- brenna
  April 5, 2013 at 7:27 PM
  Heather, I hope to one day be able to can all those things. I love the idea of putting stuff up in the summer. I saw that you have a canning page on your blog, I will have to check it out.
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Ashley
April 5, 2013 at 8:25 PM
I love this! I am definitely going to try it. But I was wondering if I could use this same recipe, but in place of the strawberries use blueberries? My husband isn’t a strawberry fan so I’d like to make something that he’d actually eat instead of just me!
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- brenna
  April 5, 2013 at 9:48 PM
  I’m am not expert on this by any means, but I think that blueberries would need pectin added to the recipe. If you try it, please let me know how it goes. I would love to do a blueberry jam. My husband doesn’t really eat it either. That’s why I’m glad it only makes 4 little jars. I can finish that in a year.
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Gabrielle
April 6, 2013 at 1:11 AM
How well do you think this would work with a sugar substitute?
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- brenna
  April 6, 2013 at 8:17 AM
  Gabrielle, I wasn’t sure, so I looked it up and here is an article I found that might help. It can be done but has to be fine a certain way. http://www.sbcanning.com/2011/08/sugar-substitutes-which-are-approved.html?m=1
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Mariely
April 6, 2013 at 1:27 AM
Pinned! I really want to try this. I love strawberries!! Thanks for sharing Brenna 🙂
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Paula
April 6, 2013 at 7:57 AM
Oven Strawberry Jam, I have never heard of such! Pinned, I’m trying this. I just made jam for the first time last week. Thanks for sharing at Saturday Dishes!
Paula
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- brenna
  April 6, 2013 at 8:11 AM
  Thanks for stopping by, Paula. Hope you enjoy this recipe.
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Lynn H @ Turnips 2 Tangerines
April 6, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Every year, I look forward to June, when I can go strawberry picking and then make jam! This recipe I am going to try. Thanks for sharing~Lynn @ Turnips 2 Tangerines
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Tammy Northrup {Yours and Mine ARE Ours}
April 7, 2013 at 2:18 PM
I love this! I’ve always wanted to make jam but found it intimidating. This looks manageable even for me. : )
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Melissa
April 10, 2013 at 12:10 PM
This looks like a fantastic jam. I’ve never heard of making jam in the oven before!
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- brenna
  April 11, 2013 at 9:10 PM
  I hadn’t either until I found this book? But I’m glad I did. It’s awesome.
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kendra kay
April 11, 2013 at 7:20 PM
Oh. Yum.
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Traci Foley
April 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM
I am trying this right now and the house already smells really good.
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- brenna
  April 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM
  It is awesome, right? I hope you enjoy this recipe! Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Ann
June 3, 2013 at 12:11 PM
This recipe is wonderful, It is so easy for these days busy life stile. This taste like the Jam my grandmother use to make.
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