211- Currant Jam (Whatelse?)

So, lasterday, I worked like a crazy woman, or perhaps the Little Red Hen:

• I pick the berries
  
• I cleaned the berries
  
• I de-stemmed the berries (with help from Hanky-Spanky)
  
• I went to a bridal shower (WHAT? when did the Little Red Hen ever get to go to bridal showers?)
  
• I steamed the berries
  
• I juiced the berries and then I collapsed in a heap on my favorite basking chair on the deck and did some star-gazing.

That means that this morning I needed to turn all of that pulp and juice into Currant jam! Boy do we ever love red currant jam here. It is so wonderfully tart, sweet and zingy!

I ended up with 28 pints of that luscious red spreadable nectar!