Microwave Fresh Strawberry Jam

Originally in the 1991 cookbook

Ingredients

5 cups crushed strawberries
2 tsp lemon juice
1 package (1 3/4 ounce) pectin
7 cups sugar

Directions

1. Combine strawberries, lemon juice, and pectin into a 4 quart microwave bowl.
2. Cover with plastic wrap and cook on high for 10-11 minutes, or until boiling.
3. Stir once during cooking time.
4. Stir in sugar.
5. Cook on high for 10-11 minutes, or until mixture boils hard for 1 minute.
6. Skim off foam.
7. Pour into 8 ounce hot sterilized jelly jars and seal with two-piece vacuum-type lids.

Makes eight 8 ounce jars