Raspberry Freezer Jam Recipe

Want to bottle up that great flavor of summer raspberries? I’ve got an easy raspberry freezer jam recipe.
Even if you’ve never made jam before with this video tutorial, I’ll show you just how easy it is. It’s not just for toast either.
This raspberry freezer jam recipe can be used as a filling for cakes and even on top of ice cream. It’s especially good on top of homemade ice cream. Yum!

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Hi I’m Shelly from Frugal Family Home and today I’m going to show you just how easy it is to make your own homemade raspberry freezer gam so let me show you what you will need to get started this is what you’re going to need to make the raspberry freezer freezer gem you’re

Going to need some sort of pectin I use the um sureel pectin it’s a brand I like um it comes in the yellow box for just regular and if you want to do the low sugar variety grab the pink box I like it better because um the mCP brand you

Need to use um corn syrup in some of them and I don’t like to use corn syrup so I use this brand um you’ll need berries it says about three pints of berries um and this is what I picked today you’re going to need to end up

With three cups of crushed berries um to make the jam and you need 5 and A4 cups of sugar and and um if this seems like a lot of sugar be sure to grab the um pink box instead of the yellow box of the sh gel and some containers okay so I have

My um berries washed and this is about half of them in the bowl and what you want to do is just you know crush them you don’t want them too mushy um you just want them you know um chunks of berries with the um with them crushed now if you don’t

Like all the seeds you can take some out I just I don’t even bother to um take any out and that looks pretty good there’s a few little berries in there but most of them are crushed up quite nicely and that’s what you’re looking for okay so there is our three cups of

Crushed raspberries to go into our um raspberry jam and what I’m going to do now is just add those raspberries to the sugar and that’s 5 and 1/4 cups of sugar and three um cups of red crushed raspberries and what you want to do is just mix this up really

Well and then we’re going to let it sit for 10 minutes um just strain occasionally during that 10 minutes it just needs to um sit and during that time um I just set a timer and then every few minutes I just walk by it and

I just give it a stir but you want to make sure to get all of that Sugar mixed in as you can tell it takes a little bit of strain to get all that Sugar Incorporated with the berries and I think we’ve got it now no there’s a little bit

More I like using a spatula for this it helps to lift the sugar up and mix it really well with the berries so there we go so that’s what it should look like when you have it all mixed up it’s kind of a light pinkish color there should be chunks of berries in

It you know um and we’ll just let it sit okay so it’s been 10 minutes and I’ve started occasionally and now it’s time to add the pectin the pectin I put 34 a cup water with the box of Shir gel and um boiled it for 1 minute and that just gets added

To the jam and stir it in and right now if you feel the back of the um spatula it’s kind of gritty we’re just going to stir for 3 minutes about 3 minutes until that grittiness is gone and the sugar is all Incorporated okay the um pectin is all stirred in and the

Sugar is all dissolved when I rub on the back of the spoon now I don’t feel the grittiness like I did before so it’s time to put it in the freezer containers so I just usually just take a ladle and I will ladle it right into the containers um my containers hold about

Two cups and when you’re Ling it in you want to make sure not to fill it all the way to the top because there’ll be some expansion when the gem freezes and so I usually fill it to right about there leave a little head space on it so that

Way it has room to expand when it freezes and not push the lid off and end up with a bunch of ice crystals and things like that so and I find the ladle works really good to um get the jam in not too many drips or messes this way um and just

Makes it just a little bit easier and that is basically it so I’ll just finish ladling this in once you get your jam into your containers you want to just put a lid on them and then let them sit on the um kitchen counter for about

24 hours then just place them in the freezer to freeze when you’re ready to use it take the container out put it in the refrigerator for overnight and your jam will be ready and if you like this recipe for freezer jam be sure to head on over to my blog at Frugal family

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