We planted both raspberries and strawberries over the last few years and are getting so many we can’t eat them all. We give them away, but is there something better we can do with them?
Edit: thanks for all the great responses. I think we’re going to freeze them.
Too many?
No such thing
Sorbet!
+1. Buy an ice cream maker and use these to make sorbet; you’ll never have too many strawberries and raspberries again.
Making jam is not trivial but it I think that makes it rewarding! My dad has made jam and marmalade for as long as I’ve known and it’s always an event. My parents have hundreds of jars (for some reason my dad calls them bottles? Only in a jam context though!) and every so often he cooks up a giant pot of jam with an old-fashioned sugar thermometer, testing the batch on a piece of baking paper, then bottling everything up. He often did it with my sister, who now also makes her own jam.
He labels all the jars, and we’ve opened jars that were… I dunno, a decade old I’m sure, and they were totally fine. So they will definitely keep for a long time!
Making jam is trivial.
You boil the fruit, and if it’s not gummy enough, you add pectin.
Done, jam.
How much sugar do you add?
How long do you boil it for? (You don’t know; you have to monitor the temperature)
How long does putting it all in jars take you? (ages)
It’s not difficult, but it is time consuming and not trivial.