Christmas Jam

• 12 ounces of fresh cranberries
• Two 10 ounce packages of frozen strawberries
• 4 cups of sugar
• 3 ounces of liquid pectin
• wax (optional)

Slightly chop the cranberries in the food processor. Mix chopped cranberries, strawberries, and sugar in bowl on the stove top. Bring to a boil, and boil for 10 minutes. Add pectin, and boil additional 1 minute. Put jam into warm jars and boil in a water bath for 5 minutes. As an alternative to the water bath let the jam cool after being placed in the jars and pour hot wax over the top. This does just as good a job of sealing it as the water bath (sometimes better), and it doesn't cook the jam any more. Yield: 6 half pints.

This stuff is GREAT! We make more batches of it every year, but we always run out before we can make it again. It is very pretty, and we like to give it away as gifts. I would be more likely to joyfully give it away if we knew for sure there was plenty for us (Yes, I like it that much)! Around here you can only obtain cranberries (at a reasonable price) around Thanksgiving and Christmas, thus the name: Christmas Jam.