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A labor of love: Preserving the glories of strawberry season with a no-pectin recipe.(Recipe)
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Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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June 25, 2007
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Byline: Robin Mather Jenkins
Call me a snob, but I will not use pectin in my preserves. And yes, I can tell if you have.
Even if you follow Sure-Jell's instructions, it's just too easy to get a rubbery result. And there's the principle of the thing. Sure-Jell's motto is "All of the love, none of the labor." To me, the labor is the point. If I wanted the labor to be easy, I'd just buy strawberry preserves.
My annotated recipe for strawberry preserves in Nora Carey's "Perfect Preserves: Provisions from the Kitchen Garden" says that I've been making this recipe since ...
