Sterilizing the jars before I start.
Cooking the apple butter down in the crockpot before I got impatient and moved it to the stove.
Closeup on the apple butter. Yum!
This is what 7 cups of sugar looks like.
Mushed up strawberries before I add the sugar and cook.
You have to have closeups of good food. Strawberry goodness here.
After it has finished cooking, right before it goes in the jars.
The "scum" you scrape from the top of the jam before you put it in jars. This is from the strawberry peach jam.
Strawberry jam, before it goes in the boiling water bath to be processed.
Processing the strawberry jam.
Processing the tiny jars of strawberry jam.
Tasting the strawberry jam. Yum!
Strawberry jam on the left and strawberry peach jam on the right. You can't tell from here, but there are chunks of peaches so I can tell the difference.
Apple butter before I wipe down the jars and add lids.
The fruits of my labor. ;-)
