Jam-making tutorial- just kidding. :-)

 Since Dan got a deer about a month ago, I thought maybe I should try to free up some freezer space a bit.  One of our freezers is plugged up with frozen fruit a neighbor man gave us.  

Well, I looked through my cupboards and found one package of suregel, for jam-making.  

I tried jam one other time back in 2018 one week before I had Gwendolyn.  It was a disastor and tasted so gross and I was so discouraged to have wasted all of that fruit, that I didn't try again.  

That might seem appalling to those of you who are jam-making pros.  Whenever I've said to people "I've never made a successful jam", they say "WHAT?   How was it unsuccessful if you followed the directions...it's a foolproof recipe."  

Well, I must be the fool that proved the foolproof recipe wrong last time.  ;-) 

This time however, is a different story.  

At first, it seemed a little runny...

But after I gave it a water bath, it seemed much more normal. 

And by the next morning on my breakfast toast, it was perfect!  I was so happy!

So yay!  I can no longer say I've had only unsuccessful attempts at jam-making. 

All you people like me, who have been to scared to try again, go give it a whirl!