About a year ago, we were out in Wisconsin visiting my Grandma, who is now over 80 years old. Her and her boyfriend still have a huge garden that they harvest and almost everything that comes out of it, they can. At dinner one night, my Grandma pulled out a jar of tomato jam. I thought in my head, “Gross, who eats this stuff. It sounds disgusting.” My Grandma told me to take a piece of toast and just try it. Four pieces of toast later, I was hooked. This has turned into my favorite jam ever and I decided to plant tomato plants this year just so i could make a bunch of it. Well, my tomato plants were terrible, I ended up getting about 4 tomatoes from them. But my sister, who has a very green thumb and a huge garden, had plenty to share. So today was tomato jam day. I’m not kidding, you must try this jam. I promise, you will definitely be wanting more!
Tomato Jam:
3 cups of peeled and crushed tomatoes
3 T. lemon juice
1/2 t. cloves
1/2 t. allspice
1/2 t. cinnamon
1 box Sure-Gel
4 1/2 c. sugar
Mix all but sugar together in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Add sugar. Cook at a slow boil for 10 minutes, stirring often. Have your jars sterilized and ready to fill according to how you normally can. Laddle into jars and process with a hot water bath for 10 minutes. Remove from bath and cool. Enjoy!
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