Is there such as thing as canning withdrawal? Because I think I have it. Bad. I missed strawberry season. Whoosh. It completely passed me by. And I was bummed. I didn't start canning until after strawberry season last year, and it was one of the things I was most looking forward to this spring. Unfortunately, I was busy doing other things, things that didn't involve fruit or canning. And I just didn't have the time. But when I finally had a weekend, a free weekend, I hoped I hadn't missed blueberry season too. So began the hunt for a local berry farm that still had berries. I probably called a dozen places. Only two had berries available for picking. So off we went. Less than four hours later, a gallon of the beautiful, late summer blueberries became eight jars of gorgeous, deeply violet jam. Why yes, I did ruin that tea towel, thanks for asking. I made half a batch of good old, plain blueberry jam per Taylor's request ("Don't put anything weird in it.") But the second batch, I had

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