Preserve Summer for Winter with This Strawberry Jam Recipe

Reader Contribution by Ed Hudson
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Finding the Tastes of Summer During Winter

When the dreary days of winter set in and you long for the wonderful vegetables of spring and summer, what can you do? You can go to the grocery store and purchase some flavorless tomatoes, some uninteresting cucumbers, some anemic strawberries and forget about finding okra and figs.

Or instead you can crack open a jar of canned tomatoes and make a sauce, dig into some crunchy pickles and okra, cut a slice of fresh-baked bread and slather it with fig preserves, or — even better still — with strawberry jam you made the summer before.

Summer means strawberries. Well, and peaches and don’t forget the figs and tomatoes and squash and beans, and black-eyed peas, melons of all sorts, and sweet corn — the list goes on. But sometimes, if you’re lucky, that bounty will lead to excess and you can put that excess to work providing a little treat during dreary weather and allowing you to get excited about what the spring will bring.

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