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I like rhubarb, I like strawberries, my wife likes jam. So I made strawberry rhubarb jam. The idea started a week ago when I promised to make my wife jam. I purchased all the ingredients, new mason jars for jam, even the sur-jell. What they didn’t sell at the store and I didn’t happen to have lying around was motivation.

Lets jump off topic for a minute and start at the beginning of how I ended up making Jam. First I made yogurt when I should have been making Jam, the yogurt didn’t look so good when I first pulled it out of the incubator. I thought it had curdled so I threw it in the fridge and started looking up rescue recipes. Then I came across a recipe for Yogurt cheesecake, and got all set to make it until I pulled the homemade yogurt out of the fridge and saw it was in fact perfect, the best yogurt I ever made. So I threw that plan out the window. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I made a mistake I told my wife I was going to make yogurt cheesecake, and we all know once you promise your wife sweets there’s no backing down. So now I made the cheesecake and was deciding on a topping, in my fridge were strawberries that needed to be used and in the freezer rhubarb. Now as always I made too much of the strawberry rhubarb syrup for the cheesecake, in fact 4 cups more than I needed. The rest is self explanatory in the recipe.

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