I made 7 – 1/2 pints and 1 full pint of the BEST EVER Concord Grape Jam!

Hello, fellow real food home cooks! I did it! I made my first-ever batch of homegrown, truly organic Concord Grape jam! With Mary Lou's encouragement, I plunged into doubling the Concord Grape Butter - left out the spices; cause I wanted Concord Grape Jam; and Voila! I made 7 1/2 pints and 1 full pint jar of the BEST EVER Concord Grape jam! I gifted the pint jar & 3 1/2 pints to the friend who gifted me with her Concord Grapes, and kept the rest!

Everything went well. I used 3 cups of sugar for 6 pounds of grapes; and if I do it again, I will reduce the sugar by a cup...the grapes were that sweet! The jam is so good, it's disappearing F.A.S.T.! I've been invited to strip all the rest of this season's Concords off the vines, if I want to make more jam...I'm still deciding, but only because I'm in school & I have to budget my time to have time to "JAM"...Hahahah!

Thanks, Mary Lou, for a wonderful, preservative-free product that even a newbie jammer like me can use & have success with! I'm inspired to continue!

Joy Massa
Carlsbad, CA
October 17, 2013