Homemade Jam/Fruit Sauce!!

Last weekend, a friend and I went frolicking at a local orchard and country market for the bounty of the local harvest. Early apples, late white peaches, fresh pie!

She also scored a bushel of tomatoes for $26....that was a freaking large amount of tomatoes. She thereafter stewed them down and canned them for her and her husband's use through the next several months.

But before that, she and I tried our hands at making berry jam! We got the recipe from The Berry Bible.







So we forgot to do the cold-spoon-gel-test before canning and our jam didn't actually gel into nice firm jam (we probably needed more pectin)...oops!

But we got some really yummy fruit sauce out of it! It's been great on plain yogurt and ice cream!