Making Raspberry Jam

Our raspberries ripen before currents, gooseberries, blackberries and blueberries. We enjoy adding jams to various cake and pastries and that made from pure raspberries is our favorite. Jam and jellies for sandwiches tolerate mixing whatever fruit are ripe as does juice concentrate that we use year round for beverages.

Raspberries Ready for Picking

Two heavy rains put a very welcome end to an extended dry period that prevented berries from growing to normal size. Our earliest raspberries are tiny but those following are normal size to large. Our first picking yielded 8 cups of juice through our "Squeezo" processor that removes more than half the raspberry seeds. Small seeds get through the sieve. This amount made two batches of jam: six each 12 ounce jars and four half pints.

Raspberries Ready for Processing

This "Squeezo" Separates Juice and Pulp from Solids, Like Seeds and Stems.

Yield: Six 12 Ounce Jars and Four 8 Ounce Jars of Raspberry Jam