First – you have to have strawberries,

children picking strawberries

First you destem them, then you have to smash them!  (at this point, let’s just say things got a bit… red… and sticky so there are no photos.)

Taking Stems off of lots of strawberries

We followed the directions on the box

ok – no clue why the iron is in the photo… 

results

and made quite a bit of jam.  We wanted to have 52 containers of jam and got pretty close.  Next year we’ll do even more because it makes great gifts and 

it was quite yummy!