More awesome jam

I'm on a jam kick right now, ever since I realized how incredibly easy it is to can my creations.

Today I made banana butter (like apple butter, only with bananas). Yum!

Banana Butter
7-8 ripe bananas, mashed
5 tbsp lemon juice
1 1/5 c sugar
1 tbsp rum
cinnamon
ginger
allspice
nutmeg

Put everything into the bread machine and set for jam. Wait 1 hour 20 min. Eat.

Filled 9 4-oz jars.

Awesome jam

Plums were on sale at the grocery store, so I bought a bunch. What to do with them? Make jam - strawberry plum vodka jam, to be exact. Yum! I also canned it, in cute little 4 oz jars, to give out for Christmas presents. They're cooling right now, so I'm really hoping they seal right - this is my first time ever canning anything.

Here's the recipe (I actually measured things this time!):

Strawberry Plum Vodka Jam
1 lb strawberries, washed and cut into chunks
5 large plums, peeled and cut into chunks
1 c sugar
2 tbsp vodka
1/2 tbsp pectin

1. Put the fruit into a food processor and pulse until it's in small chunks.
2. Throw everything into a bread machine.
3. Cook on jam setting.
4. Can.

I ended up with 10 4-oz jars of jam, plus a little left over to eat immediately.