Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone, here, has any experience making jams with dried berries (eg. hawthorne berries or elderberries, which are hard to find fresh and growing in the wild in my area of the country). This is why I purchase berries such as these from a reputable herbal-dealer, such as Mountain Rose Herb, Frontier Herb (located in Iowa, my home state), or Monterey Bay Spice Co., etc. Hawthorne is very nourishing for the heart (one of the best heart-healers known in western medicine!); and elderberries are a powerful anti-viral herb amazingly useful against the flu in particular! So, I was wondering if I could turn dried elderberries or hawthorne berries--or even juniper berries!--into a jam? And, how might I successfully accomplish that, especially so it's not all hard and crunchy (I don't need another broken tooth this lifetime! The sole time that happened was traumatic enough!)? It's another way to more directly incorporate these potent phyto-chemicals into one's diet, especially during the Winter.