Amish Strawberry JamHomemade in Small Batches, Two 10 oz Jars

• Handcrafted Quality: Every jar is put up in small batches in Lena Mast's kitchen, where she measures each ingredient by hand and watches over the pot the way her mother and grandmother taught her. No factory ever touches it.
• Real Amish Strawberry Jam: Made by an Old Order Amish family from strawberries picked at the peak of ripeness, with a recipe her own community judged the best tasting jam around in a friendly cook off.
• Two 10 oz Jars in Every Set: Each set includes two 10 ounce jars, and each jar measures about 2 1/2 inches across and 4 1/2 inches tall. A 4 jar option is there if you would like extras for the pantry or for giving.
• Simple Ingredients: Strawberries, sugar, grape juice, a pectin mix, and a touch of vanilla. No artificial flavors and no preservatives.
• The Fruit Juice Secret: Lena swaps the water in the old recipe for fruit juice, which deepens the strawberry flavor. One customer wrote that it "balances acidity and sweetness, and preserves the taste of strawberries."
• Keeps for a Year Unopened: Jars are put up in a standard canning process, so they keep at least a year in the pantry unopened. Once a jar is open, keep it in the refrigerator between uses.
• Gift Ready: Every order ships gift ready with no prices in the box, and you can add a free gift note at checkout. Customers regularly give one jar and keep the other.
• American Heritage: Made by an Old Order Amish family on the Iowa-Missouri border, from recipes handed down through generations, and shipped free to your door on every order.

This Amish strawberry jam comes out of Lena Mast's kitchen, where she puts it up in small batches the way her mother and grandmother taught her. Each set brings you two 10 ounce jars, so there is one for the breakfast table and one for the pantry, or one to keep and one to give. Spread it thick on warm biscuits, stir a spoonful into oatmeal, or set a jar out with fresh bread when company comes. It is the simple kind of good that disappears faster than you expect.

Plenty of folks land here searching for the best strawberry jam, and our customers do not hesitate on that point. One longtime buyer wrote that it is "the best jam I ever had" and that "our whole family loves it so much," and another said, "We love the flavor, the texture and consistency, and just everything about it." The 10 ounce jar is part of the reason it tastes this way. A batch small enough to watch over by hand only fills so many jars, and we would rather keep it that way than cook it in bigger pots. One reviewer only wished the jar were larger, and if you feel the same, the 4 jar option keeps you supplied. One practical note: the lids are screwed down snug by hand, so if a jar puts up a fight, run warm water over the lid for half a minute and it will loosen right up.

There is no shortage of strawberry jam for sale in the grocery aisle, but very little of it was ever stirred by hand. That difference is why so many customers order this jam twice, once for themselves and once as a gift. "I am happy to give this as a gift because of the quality," one wrote, and another called it "a great present for Christmas." Of all the Amish jams from Lena's kitchen, alongside her peach jam and apple butter, strawberry is the flavor customers name as their favorite. Every order ships gift ready with no prices in the box, and you can add a free gift note at checkout.

The recipe itself has a story. A few years back, the ladies in Lena's community held a friendly cook off to see whether her old family recipes could be improved. Only one change survived: replacing the water in the recipe with fruit juice, which deepened the strawberry flavor and earned this jam its standing as the best tasting in the community. That is the jar that arrives at your door, real Amish jam made by an Old Order family on the Iowa-Missouri border, shipped free on every order. If it becomes a staple at your table, and it tends to, the 4 jar set will be ready when you are.