my love of dirty girl farm is no secret.

neither is my love of albion strawberries.

so it would only make sense that dirty girl albion strawberries would be my, uh, favorites?

i got a couple of flats of the berries yesterday, and jo helped me hull them. i decided to try the christine ferber method, where you macerate the berries overnight, bring them to a simmer the second day, and make the jam on the third day by cooking the syrup down and quickly throwing in the berries at the last second. this isn't so different than the june taylor marmalade method, which has worked beautifully for me in the past, so i feel pretty good about it.

i even got to break in my copper jam pot. yay!

the only weird thing about the christine ferber recipe is how much sugar it calls for: 85% by weight! yikes! i know strawberries are low sugar and low pectin, and so you need some extra insurance, but yeesh! 85%? i started with 20%. let's see how that works for us. i'll keep you posted.