Making Jam!

So... we made a whole lot of tamales this year, and in order for us to get them all in the freezer, something had to go.  We had a bunch of frozen cherries and apricots in the freezer, so Susan, Amy and I decided it was time to make jam.  We made 14 half-pints of apricot jam, and 10 half-pints of cherry.  It was tasty and delicious if we do say so ourselves.

This is Amy taking cherry jam out of the boiling water bath.

This is Susan putting more jars of cherry jam into the boiling water bath.

The jars of apricot jam are washed and ready to label!

This morning, Amy made waffles for breakfast.  We put some of the new jam on them.  Delicious.  (When you make jam, the instructions tell you not to do more than one batch at a time because it may not set up.  Both our batches were double batches.  We figured if it didn't set up, we'd have some tasty syrup.  They set up, so it was tasty jam instead.)