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Gram Harry’s Home-Canned Garden-Fresh Raspberry Jam
Gram Harry’s Home-Canned Garden-Fresh Raspberry Jam
Ingredients:
2 quarts red raspberries. (Gram Harry picked hers ripe from bushes behind her house.)
7 cups sugar
½ bottle fruit pectin
1 box canning wax
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Directions:
Carefully select the best raspberries and wash them. Crush them with a potato masher but
not so much that some of the little nodules in the berries aren’t intact. Measure out four
cups. If there isn’t enough, mash more berries or add water to make up the difference.
Add sugar and mix. Bring to full, rolling boil for 1 full minute stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in pectin. Skim the pink froth from the top (you can let the
young cooks who want to help with this project taste this—they’ll remember it their
whole lives!) and pour into hot, sterilized glasses leaving enough room (about ½ inch at
least) for the sealing wax.
For a real ‘50s look, use bottles you’ve saved from other products—preferably small
decorative ones—or assorted glasses from your thrift store. Makes eleven 6-oz bottles.
Melt enough wax to cover the tops of each bottle. Pour the hot wax on top of the jam.
Make sure the wax touches all the way to the edges of the bottles. Label the outside of the
bottles for gift-giving.
Author’s Bio:
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t want to write a novel. I wanted to write
“Gone with the Wind” only about Utah instead of the South. I wanted it to say something
important and still be entertaining. I wanted to paint an authentic picture of both of my
cultures—the Mormon and the Non-Mormon—for one side was very different from, yet
very much the same—as the other. I believe that because I was raised with a window
open on both religions, I was able to see how intolerance corrodes the soul of both those
who practice it and those on whom it is practiced and to show how it turns back on itself
in a cycle of destruction.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of THIS IS THE PLACE an award-
winning novel about love, prejudice and redemption set in Utah in the ‘50s. All of the
wonderful recipes she supplied for this cookbook are from are from her novel, THIS IS
THE PLACE.
You are welcome to visit her web site at
to find additional information or
contact her at HOJONEWS@aol.com.
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STRAWBERRY JELLY
Setting the Scene:
Georgey’s room is always a mess! He has puzzle pieces in the hamper, clothes
are hanging from the ceiling fan, and there are even crayons in the fishbowl! His first
grade class is going to the zoo, but Georgey has lost his permission slip. Will he be able
to find it in time to go to the zoo?
Georgey finally sits on the couch to eat his favorite snack. Mmmmmm....peanut butter
and jelly sandwich with a glass of milk. He is so careless, he doesn’t realize the mess he
has made on the couch. Peanutbutter and jelly all over the couch! It’s dripping from the
table and off his plate! Author Susan Younan Attiyah invites you to share homemade
strawberry jelly while you read I’LL NEVER FIND ANYTHING IN HERE (). Just be careful of drips!
STRAWBERRY JELLY
Ingredients:
2 quarts red raspberries. (Gram Harry picked hers ripe from bushes behind her house.)
7 cups sugar
½ bottle fruit pectin
1 box canning wax
104
Directions:
Carefully select the best raspberries and wash them. Crush them with a potato masher but
not so much that some of the little nodules in the berries aren’t intact. Measure out four
cups. If there isn’t enough, mash more berries or add water to make up the difference.
Add sugar and mix. Bring to full, rolling boil for 1 full minute stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in pectin. Skim the pink froth from the top (you can let the
young cooks who want to help with this project taste this—they’ll remember it their
whole lives!) and pour into hot, sterilized glasses leaving enough room (about ½ inch at
least) for the sealing wax.
For a real ‘50s look, use bottles you’ve saved from other products—preferably small
decorative ones—or assorted glasses from your thrift store. Makes eleven 6-oz bottles.
Melt enough wax to cover the tops of each bottle. Pour the hot wax on top of the jam.
Make sure the wax touches all the way to the edges of the bottles. Label the outside of the
bottles for gift-giving.
Author’s Bio:
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t want to write a novel. I wanted to write
“Gone with the Wind” only about Utah instead of the South. I wanted it to say something
important and still be entertaining. I wanted to paint an authentic picture of both of my
cultures—the Mormon and the Non-Mormon—for one side was very different from, yet
very much the same—as the other. I believe that because I was raised with a window
open on both religions, I was able to see how intolerance corrodes the soul of both those
who practice it and those on whom it is practiced and to show how it turns back on itself
in a cycle of destruction.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of THIS IS THE PLACE an award-
winning novel about love, prejudice and redemption set in Utah in the ‘50s. All of the
wonderful recipes she supplied for this cookbook are from are from her novel, THIS IS
THE PLACE.
You are welcome to visit her web site at
to find additional information or
contact her at HOJONEWS@aol.com.
************************************************************************
105
STRAWBERRY JELLY
Setting the Scene:
Georgey’s room is always a mess! He has puzzle pieces in the hamper, clothes
are hanging from the ceiling fan, and there are even crayons in the fishbowl! His first
grade class is going to the zoo, but Georgey has lost his permission slip. Will he be able
to find it in time to go to the zoo?
Georgey finally sits on the couch to eat his favorite snack. Mmmmmm....peanut butter
and jelly sandwich with a glass of milk. He is so careless, he doesn’t realize the mess he
has made on the couch. Peanutbutter and jelly all over the couch! It’s dripping from the
table and off his plate! Author Susan Younan Attiyah invites you to share homemade
strawberry jelly while you read I’LL NEVER FIND ANYTHING IN HERE (). Just be careful of drips!
STRAWBERRY JELLY
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