canning cherries and cherry jam, from july 3rd

saturday july 3 i canned cherries and made cherry jam from juice with my mom.

start with a sink full of cherries


a hand held cherry pitter helps things along


wear gloves or else you get purple hands for a few days


try to keep the pits in the sink


end up with 2 cups of pits


cherry splatter gets everywhere


stove setup: sterilized lids in back, syrup on left, canner on right


for the jam we used cherry juice my mom picked up i think at trader joes


the smudge in the dish was where we checked that it was the right consistancy, the funnel is a huge help


end up with this:


4 bags of cherries from rainbow made 11 pints.
syrup was 8 cups water, 1 and 1/2 cups sugar.

jam was 32 oz of cherry juice, 1 package low/no sugar pectin, 1 1/2 cups sugar, made 3 1/2 jelly jars.

picture of last years cherry canning: