How To Make Your Own Strawberry Jam

I used this recipe from Allrecipes as a reference, because it was one of the few that didn't require pectin (a naturally-occurring substance in fruits that helps it to gel faster). I had an irresistable urge to make jam... I just had to do it.

Ingredients:

1 lb (454g) of strawberries, diced
7 heaping tablespoons of white sugar
2 tablespoons of lemon juice

Steps:

1. Mash up strawberries in a large bowl with a fork, till it looks somewhat like this.

Feel free to mash it up further if you don't like lumps in your jam.

2. In a saucepan, add sugar, lemon juice to strawberries, and stir over low heat till sugar dissolves.

Increase heat to high, and bring to a full rolling boil like in the picture. Stir often. When ten minutes has passed, take a small dollop of jam and place it on a cold plate that has been in the freezer for ten minutes. Leave it in there for a minute, and run your finger through the jam. If the track that your finger has made remains there, it's done.

3. Leave overnight in the fridge.

4. Spread on toast.

And munch munch munch on the best homemade jam ever.