camp meals

Wild Strawberry Trail Jam

Tiny strawberries and sugar cooked down in a mug pot until they hold together. One-pot dessert on a car-camping stove.

calories
210
weight
3.5 oz
cal / oz
60
protein
1 g
serves
4, scales
prep
10 min
cook
25 min
total time
35 min
water
30 ml cold
cost
$

Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.

  • Dessert
  • Breakfast
  • Canister stove
  • Liquid fuel
  • Campfire coals
  • Car camping
  • Basecamp
  • Canoe / raft
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan
  • Gluten free
  • Dairy free
  • Nut free
  • One pot
  • Grab and go
  • Day one only
  • Basic

Ingredients

Wild strawberries 1 lb small woodland berries; cultivated ones work but cook down wetter
Granulated sugar 3/4 lb roughly three parts berry to two parts sugar by weight
Lemon juice 1 tbsp bottled is fine and keeps without a fridge
Water 2 tbsp only if the berries are dry

Method

  1. Pick over the berries and pull any stems. Do not wash them if you can avoid it. Extra water means extra boiling.

Placeholder.

Packing

Sugar goes in a screw-top jar, lemon juice in a small dropper bottle. Berries travel in a rigid container or they turn to pulp in the pack.

Variations

  • Cook it ten minutes less and you get syrup for pancakes instead of jam.
  • A split vanilla bean or a strip of orange peel in the pot for the last five minutes changes the whole thing.

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