Cranberry Jam

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This jam is one of the original jams that I would make during the holiday season to give out as gifts…

While most people, if working with fresh cranberries, would ‘sauce’ them, cooking them with water and sugar to make fresh cranberry sauce if they opted to go that route versus using a canned variety, I would make jam with my fresh cranberries; mincing and chopping them into fine bits, combining them with cranberry juice, and just a bit of citrus for added flavor… I’d opt for tangerine or clementine juice – those glorious fruits that are so prevalent this time of year… adding a bit of lime juice to bump up the acidity to make it safe to can, and just enough sugar to make it ‘perfekt’… simmer slowly until that beautiful jammy state was reached, then I’d jar it in those jeweled canning jars, ribbon those bad boys up, and voila!  A perfect gift for the holidays…

Last month, an old friend of mine who used to be a regular recipient of that gift asked if I was ever going to add that jam to my available jams on the site, or if I was going to be gifting it again, and then I realized that it has been quite some time since I’ve made that jam, and that it was high time that my Cranberry Jam joined the ranks, and so here it is… for you to enjoy!!

Happy Holidays!!!!!!