Today I Made Strawberry Jam.....

Today I made some Strawberry Jam.  The house smelt of strawberries, outside smelt of strawberries. My husband, who shall from henceforth be known as "Himself" came in to see what I was doing and he was super impressed...

I'll show you what I did....

 First of all I got 2 kilos of these beautiful strawberries and hulled them...

Then I chopped them in half and put them into my big soup pot.....

Then I added 2 kilos of sugar - yes 2 kilos - it has to be equal amounts

Then I let it boil for 20 minutes... it looked all pink and frothy and gorgeous.

While that was happening I put some clean jars into a hot oven to sterilise them ( and because you have to put the jam into hot jars)

When the jam was ready (see below for hints) I added the juice of 1 lemon as it improves the flavour

Helpful hints from the "Edmonds Cookbook"

Then it was into the jars and covered whilst hot.

Presto - yummy jam!!! Yay!

Finally I went to see Nellie, my cockatoo, she didn't want to talk to me...

Until  she saw what I had saved for her.....

One happy cockatoo!!!