Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Casey76 on August 04, 2010, 08:58
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I have now made:
Strawberry jam
Raspberry jam
Strawberry and raspberry jam
Blueberry jam
Apricot jam
Rhubarb and ginger jam
Mango jam (yuk... I don't know if I'll be able to give it away!)
Raspberry jelly
Blueberry jelly
Blackcurrant jelly
Redcurrant jelly
Summer fruit jelly
Red fruit jelly
Redcurrant and cherry jelly
The only one I had a problem with was the Summer fruit jelly... I had to reboil with extra sugar to get it to set, but i think it was because I used frozen fruit, not fresh.
I'm now waiting impatiently for my mirabelles and quetch to ripen :)
Christmas should be fairly easy this year lol!
Funnily enough I'm more enthusiastic about my currant bushes again lol. though I wont get any fruit next year as I'm renovating all the canes, and I'll be taking out all of the currently fruiting wood... but i should have good harvests from the year after :D
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When are you going to eat your lovely jam? I love making jam - but we arent very good at eating it. Jellies to go with meat disappear (rosemary, mint, spiced), but we dont eat breakfast or just muesli on the run, lunch is a packed sandwich and fruit/ veg sticks, no tea then dinner in the evening.
I would love a reason to make more .... :unsure:
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Actually I hardly ever eat jam either :tongue2:
I'll probably give most of it away (Since I have about 70 jars of the stuff!)
I do have sample pots in the fridge, and I have to say that it is very nice (much nicer than shop jam), but when i have about one slice of jam and bread a week it is going to last a loooong time lol.
Maybe in the winter I'll eat a bit more with porridge...