Showing posts with label jam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jam. Show all posts

Sunday 25 September 2011

Low hanging fruit

It always seems to end up being the last weekend of September by the time we get around to picking raspberries, today was no exception. Raspberry jam is one of those things that makes the prospect of shorter days, overcast skies and colder weather more bearable. There's a choice of a few fruit growers nearby, but Mrs Lester's mum at P J Lay's PYO on the Brightwell road is closest - about a mile away.
Mystical cat guards choice fruit
Mrs Lester's mum didn't want to be in the photo so she stayed out of sight behind the door
Typed recipe. Check those dates! Looks like we ran out of jam too early in 2007.
9lbs of fruit softening on a low light

Jars sterilising in the oven
Coming to the boil
When it comes to weights and measures, I have to describe myself as a metric migrant. One foot in the decimal present, the other in pounds and ounces and the days of yore
Sunshine in a jar