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Step 6 of 6 · Small-Batch Strawberry Jam

Wait until cool if you can

Wait until cool if you can — step 6 of 6 in Small-Batch Strawberry Jam. Hot jam tastes sweeter and looser. Morning toast is the exam. If it's still runny cold, it's sauce — excellent on ice cream.

Cool, wrinkled, on toast. That's jam.
Cool, wrinkled, on toast. That's jam.

Free food & cooking tip: Wait until cool if you can (step 6 of 6 from "Small-Batch Strawberry Jam").

Hot jam tastes sweeter and looser. Morning toast is the exam. If it's still runny cold, it's sauce — excellent on ice cream. You still cooked fruit on purpose.

Next batch, a few underripe berries in the kilo help the set without a box of pectin.

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