How to Can Strawberries; Long-Term Food Preservation

I love to can strawberries because freezer space is often limited at my house. Plus, there is a multitude of ways to use canned strawberries later. In fact, the number of recipes is too numerous to count. Such an easy way to preserve your fruit.

Our families (insert word KIDS here) can’t seem to get enough of these sweet nuggets of goodness, and as a result, they usually eat the strawberries faster than we can preserve them. Truth be told, they eat them out of the garden before they are hardly ripe.

You’ve already seen us resort to midnight canning sessions for some of our more popular family favorites. In order to keep the kids out of the fridge and from eating all the strawberries, we needed for this video Emmaline literally had to rubber-band the container shut with a note threatening all sorts of banning her teenage sons (food monsters) from electronic devices if they were eaten. It must have worked because we have the video.

Be aware that the color and flavor of your canned strawberries become a little muted but that doesn’t mean they can’t be utilized in many lovely ways. Just look how beautiful this jar of strawberries looks.

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Canning strawberries is not hard but does require some forethought and a bit of waiting.

How to Can Strawberries

These directions will make a 1-quart jar of canned strawberries.

The first step is to wash and hull 3 pounds of strawberries.

Next, we will place them in a saucepot and coat the strawberries with 1/2- 3/4 cup of sugar. Allow it to sit, rest, and “sweat” for 5-6 hours in a cool place.

Next, place the pot on the stove and cook just until the strawberries are warm and the sugar is melted. Using a jar funnel, fill your hot jar leaving a 1/2 inch headspace.

Place the lid on top of the jar and add the ring. Tighten the ring to fingertip tight and process in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes if at sea level. (Remember to adjust the pressure for your elevation if higher than 1000 feet.)

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Intro: (00:00)
Canning Strawberries: (00:06)
Prepare Strawberries: (00:15)
Rest/Sweat Strawberries in Sugar: (00:30)
Heat Berries and Melt Sugar: (02:00)
Jar the berries: (02:45)
Process Canned Strawberries in the Water Bath Canner: (05:20)
Outro: (05:44)

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To Marie and Emmaline, the lost arts are the useful knowledge related to simple living, country living, modern homesteading, and old-fashioned traditions that are not readily being passed down from generation to generation as they used to. It includes sustainable living skills like gardening, canning basics, and homesteading skills. Some of Marie and Emmaline's favorite hard skills include boiling water bath canning, pressure canning, steam juicing, dehydrating, and fermenting our own food to add to our pantries and food storage.