Operation Strawberry By the Numbers
Posted by Heather on Apr 26, 2008 in family life |
Ingredients
- 2 adults
- 5 kids
- 6 buckets
- 45lbs of strawberries
- 40lbs of sugar
- 10 boxes of pectin
- 2 1/2 cups lemon juice
Yields
- 3 cups strawberry salsa
- 1 strawberry shortcake
- 4 qts frozen strawberries (margaritas? Yes, please!)
- 5 1/2 GALLONS of jam
- 1 utterly destroyed kitchen
- 1 exhausted Heather
Who wants toast?
test
the 5 kids remained intact? no need to hose off strawberry stickiness afterward?
Ohhh I miss doing this.. we should go pick.. then get ready for blueberries.. yum!
As my children are older now, I’d have more help.. why did it seem easier when I was too busy to breathe?
Home Made bread toast? (ducking)
Do you deliver?
Well worth it!
I have been wanting to make my own jam. Sounds delish!
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Forty-five pounds of strawberries!!! You defintely deserve a few strawberry margaritas!
I’ve checked my mail repeatedly and I’ve yet to see anything resembling a jar of jam coming my way. This warrants a trip south. You realize that, don’t you?
45 gallons of strawberries!? Wow!
Becky and a friend of hers did this too (I guess I kind of helped, but not really)… I suspect we’ll be eating strawberry jam/jelly for QUITE some time.