Recipe - Favorite Raspberry Jam

6 cup Raspberries(fairly closely
packed)
6 cup Sugar; warmed,see note

Measure berries into large saucepan. Mash with potato masher as they heat
and bring to a full tumble boil. Boil 2 minutes. Add warmed sugar and vring
to a full rolling boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat; beat with a rotary
hand beater for 4 minutes (stick beater through a piece of heavy brown
paper to protect hands from spattering and steam). Ladle jam into hot
sterilized jars, leaving 1/4inch headspace. Seal immediately with
twopiece lids according to manufacturer's instructions and process in
boiling water bath for 5 minutes.

NOTES : To warm the sugar, put it in a bowl in a 200 F oven for a few
minutes.
Recipe by: Vancouver Sun 7/16/97 Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange
Newsletter by "Karen Deck" kdeck@island.net on Jul 24, 1997