Blackberry jam

[EltonFrog]

I've made loads of jam this year. I have a plum tee in my garden and I usually get 15gs of plums from it. Last year I made 52 jars of plum jam and gave it all away round the village.

This year I only got 2kg of plums, so I made about 8 jars of of plum and elderberry jam, and my neighbour gave me some rhubarb which gave me 10 jars of rhubarb and ginger jam, I got some cheap peaches form Aldi, and made 10 jars of spiced peach and port jam, and some figs from Tesco and made fig and vanilla jam.

Keeping some myself, I'll give the rest away. The Carlp family does not feck about when it comes to jam.

 

[Thomk]

15 gs of fruit divided between 52 jars? The villagers must have been delighted with their tiny tiny jars of jam.

 

[Thomk]

This year I made damson jam, apricot and apple chutney and fig chutney. I still have slo and damson gin from last year for some reason (must get cracking with that). Walnut tree failed completely this year.

 

[EltonFrog]

15 gs of fruit divided between 52 jars? The villagers must have been delighted with their tiny tiny jars of jam.

Hmm, I might have missed a k form there somewhere! Bloody iPad eyboard!

 

[penguinking9]

We're still using the plum chutney I made 5 (?) years ago.

It was an epic plum year, we made 50 litres each of 2 different varieties of plum wine, a huge jar of plum vodka (not as strong as damson gin as the plums have a lot of juice, will try drying the plums a bit next time.) and the afore mentioned chutney.

Not to mention eating huge amounts of fresh plums and plum pies and crumbles.

Frankly, it was a bit of a relief this year when one tree only produced a dozen fruit, and the other was ravaged by squirrels.

Bit of a bu**er having to buy in damsons for the gin though.

 

[Maz]

Blackberries are great. How come they always seem to grow on verges next to railway lines?