Balancing Love and Jam

The past couple weekends I've been helping to clean out the freezer by using up the last of our berries. Too many wild berries is a good problem to have, me thinks. I decided to make jam out of the blueberries and syrup out of the cranberries. We've had the syrup a few times now. It turned out yummy. Not too sweet and not too tart, that's the balance I'm trying to achieve with jams etc. As C.O. and I to do a taste test during the cooking process, he errs on the side of tart and I err on the side of sweet so it usually turns out just right. That's why we're a good pair, we balance each other (and our preserves) out. Here's a picture of the "fruits" of my labor. I end up giving a lot of it away. One family cannot reasonably consume that much in a year.

--AnnMarie