Strawberry Jam

Instructions

1. Strip the stalks from some fine scarlet strawberries, weigh, and boil them for thirty-five minutes, keeping them very constantly stirred.
2. Throw in eight ounces of good sugar, beaten small, to the pound of fruit; mix them well off the fire.
3. Then boil the preserve again quickly for twenty-five minutes.
4. Proportions: Strawberries, 6 lbs.: 35 minutes. Sugar, 3 lbs.: 25 minutes.
5. Note: We do not think it needful to give directions with each separate receipt for skimming the preserve with care, and keeping it constantly stirred, but neither should in any case be neglected.