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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I saw freezer jam on the Pamona Pectin site and I am very interested in it. I don't eat jam or jelly at all because there's so much sugar in it that I just don't like it. I figured if I wanted to eat a spoon of sugar, I would just eat a spoon of sugar. Also, canning is just too much work.
I love chocolate, but I like dark chocolate. So I do like sweet stuff, just not straight sugar. There's recipes on their site, so maybe I'll try it out.
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Yeah, freezer jam is probably just basically sugar and strawberries (Mother always used strawberries, but I'm sure that it's made with other fruit, too). There might be a little pectin in it, too, since you saw it on the Pamona pectin site.
A person today who does canning probably does it because they enjoy it. It is a lot of work. The only other reason that I can think of is to save money--some people have large gardens and they preserve their veggies and stuff over the winter and use from the canned goods through the winter. They think, at least, that it saves them money. Our local Walmart still carries canning jars and supplies, and they're not hidden away in some corner, so I get the feeling that there are still quite a few people who do it.
I love milk chocolate, but would almost as soon eat no chocolate at all if dark chocolate was all that was available. And, wouldn't you know, the dark chocolate is actually the healthy one of the two.