Everyone knows that certain foods can transport you right back to your childhood. For me, rhubarb jam is one of those foods. It was always an absolute favorite of mine. A special treat. Just thinking about it is making my mouth water.
I've always talked about rhubarb jam to my kids but they had never had a chance to try it. A couple of years ago I decided to remedy that and I planted rhubarb in my garden. You can't harvest the rhubarb for the first couple of seasons so this was the first year I could actually harvest and use the rhubarb.
I made the jam, and as predicted, it was a hit. A new favorite. Thank goodness I planted a lot of rhubarb. I will be making this all summer long.
The recipe is my grandmother's and it is ridiculously easy.
8 cups of rhubarb
4 cups of sugar (I try to cut the amount of sugar down if possible)
6 oz strawberry jell-o
Peel and destring the rhubarb and cut into small chunks.
Boil rhubarb and sugar on the stove (I add about a cup of water- just enough to coat bottom of kettle) for approximately 3-4 minutes until the rhubarb is tender.
Turn off heat and add jell-o.
Pour jam into jars and allow to cool.
Jelly can be refrigerated or frozen.
3 comments:
It does look like an easy recipe! I was trying to figure out how you had time with all your stuff going on to make jam, but really the recipe seems to make itself :)
Enjoy!
betty
Rhubarb always makes me think of my aunt, who had a big rhubarb patch behind her garage. She lived on a farm in western Ohio. When we visited and it was in season, she would give us a big brown paper grocery bag full of rhubarb, we always made pies and strawberry rhubarb sauce with it. Enjoy and thanks for the memories!
I should try this, we have scads of the stuff!
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