I stumbled across this blog post about strawberry jam in the crockpot. I was going to just cut up my extra strawberries and put sugar with them to make sauce, but this other thing sounded like a nice change from the norm. She found a recipe on the internet that didn't use pectin--instead used lemon juice. That worked for her. Well, I don't have pectin OR lemon juice, so I scoured the comments (most of the time, a gold mine) and found someone said that the lemon juice is what prevented botulism, and citrus fruits do the same thing. Several other people also mentioned using an apple instead of lemon juice, and that DID work for me. So I cut up my ginormously huge strawberries (1 and 1/3 pounds): and cut up an apple and opened a can of pineapples with 100% juice: I turned my crockpot on high for about 4 hours, then opened the lid and mashed everything up (the pineapples were still chunks, but they mashed up pretty well). I tasted it and it did need sugar (the other lady put in 4 cups, but a lot of commentors said they put in 2 cups and next time they'd put in even less). So I put 1 cup of sugar in. It's definitely not sweet-sweet like jelly, but it has just enough sweetness to be sweet. :-) It made approximately 16 oz of "jam". One container is in the fridge to be enjoyed now, the other's in the freezer. YUM!!! (P.S. I didn't put a link to the other lady's post because she takes the name of the Lord in vain and I didn't want to link to that. If you really want to find it, I'm sure you can google "strawberry crockpot no pectin" or something to find it, but I changed the recipe enough, I think, that hers was merely inspiration.)
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Mom
6/10/2014 12:10:10 pm
This looks and sounds amazing!!
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Sherry
6/11/2014 07:23:51 am
Looks yummy....wouldn't have thought to use pineapple in with the strawberries. Can you taste the pineapple? Great job!
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Jessica
6/11/2014 08:22:41 am
The pineapples didn't mash up into puree like the apples and strawberries did, so there are bites of mainly pineapple. Also, the overall taste is a bit more acidic, I think, than if I hadn't put them in. I think it would taste good with mikan (tangerine? cuties?) slices, also.
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