When life gives you apricots, make apricot jam!

Our tree went a little crazy! Our super nanny had the great idea to make jam with the girls. Here's what happened.

 

Cut them up

 

Cook

 

Blend and then cook a little more

 

Sterilize

 

Fill and, not shown is the cooking of the jars after the jam is inside. You stick the filled jars in water and boil for 10 minutes. This is the essential step to insure the food is properly canned! See directions below.

 

Cool and enjoy!

Here are the complete directions from our super nanny:

Cut them into pieces (8 Cups to be exact), put them in the pan with 1/4 cup lemon juice, and I used 4.5 cups of sugar (the recipe said 6!) (Note, Natalie I made this again with low sugar pectin and used what the amount of pectin and 3 cups of sugar.)

Stir them as they cook, once they boil set a time for about 30 minutes and stir often, otherwise the sugar will stick and burn.

Once its done it will look slightly chunky (but because I didn't think the girls would like it with chunks) so I put it in the blender for 5-7 seconds.

While the fruit was cooking I sterilized the canning jars in boiling water, you put them in for 10 minutes. (You can sterilize them in the dish washer but we didn't have time to do so.)

Once the jar are done let them cool and they are VERY hot! Once the jars are cool enough for touch and the jam is done FILL them up about 4/5 of the way leaving a little room at the top--(just fill to the bottom of the place where the lid screws on.

After you pour them in the jars that have been sterilized you put them back in the water; once the water boils you set a timer for 10 minutes and let them can.

Then you have JAM!!! Let them sit for a day to cool and Enjoy!!

Note again...SO YUMMY. Thanks, Chelsea! I followed her directions and made it again with Natalie. We also made a lot of apricot crisps. Now, we are a little sick of apricots. Next year, our plan is to make jam and to freeze apricots all cut up so we can make jam later in the year (or crisps).