Teacher Appreciation

I spent the weekend putting up some strawberry fruit spread.  Here's how I made it:

1 box low sugar pectin
8 cups of chopped and mashed strawberries
4 cups of sugar

Put fruit and pectin in large stock pot on stove over medium-high.  Bring to a boil while stirring.  Add sugar all at once and return to a boil while stirring that cannot be stirred down.  Boil for 3 minutes.  Ladle into jars.

yields 8 pints

tastes delicious and has much less sugar than jam.  jam usually has about 5 cups of fruit to 8 1/2 cups of sugar.

Then I attached cute little tags with ribbon.  I hope the teachers know it's a token of how much they are appreciated and enjoy it!