Chloe and Natto's jam journey

Chloe's allotment is bursting with fruit. So tonight, as they were on the turn from ripe to mush, we made two simple jams. 

 

Chloe doesn't like maggots. I think we got rid of most of them but these jams might not be veggie friendly...

We used about 800g of gorgeous homegrown, organic fruit

then, after blitzing, poured the fruit into a deep pan and gradually added a generous amount of sugar with extra pectin and a knob of butter.

We brought the mixture to the boil and timed its bubbling for four minutes. It smelled lovely.

After warming the jam jars in the oven to sterilise them, we used a ladle to spoon the jam mixture into jars.

It's so simple, even I - with my quasimodo neck - had a go.

Spooning glory...

Chloe checks out her jammy goodness.

Each batch made about four medium sized jars.

We covered each with rounds of greaseproof paper while they cooled to stop any funny business getting in.

And that, believe it or not, was it! Goodnight.

N x