Comments on: Two-day-old fridge berries jam

By: pianolearner

pianolearner — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:48:03 +0000

Be careful what you say, you nearly ended up with one of our blackcurrant gins….

By: lialeendertz

lialeendertz — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:52:58 +0000

I think sticking them all in gin has to be the way forward, doesnt it? Christmas presents ahoy. Im even thinking of gooseberry gin…who knows? And come the berry-requiring apocalypse we can just fish them out.

By: pianolearner

pianolearner — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:40:50 +0000

We are awash with berries at the moment too, there’s only so many I can have with my cornflakes/yoghurt/supper/lunch/tea. Our Tayberry produced 1 berry in it’s first year (which we split in half), nowadays it has literally hundreds of the things on them. The strawbs have had their best year ever and now the blackcurrants and goosberries have ripened we are officially drowning under fruit. We still have a bottle and half of last years blackcurrant gin in the larder so I’m not sure what we are going to do with this years lot. I think wellywoman is freezing them for some as yet unanticipated emergency that will require shed loads of red fruit.
And all this is before the 7 metres of rasps start fruiting .Arrgh!

#firstworldproblems

By: pianolearner

pianolearner — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:28:47 +0000

Protein Ms. Sock, Protein.

By: lialeendertz

lialeendertz — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:03:21 +0000

I think the sugar draws the juices out so the fruit holds together better when boiled? So yours are going to be admirably solid.

By: lialeendertz

lialeendertz — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:01:44 +0000

That’s my girl! AND i did it all just so she would actually eat breakfast and be less stroppy…Thanks for saying nice things x

By: Simon S

Simon S — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 03:34:36 +0000

The best recipes (or at least the best ones I’ve bothered to read) suggest steeping the berries o/night in sugar so it follows that only the “best” jam can be made from two day old (or day 2) berries.
The strawberry/loganberry juice/sugar mix in our pressure cooker is now 3 days old & as far as I am concerned can only improve with age.

By: Jane Willis

Jane Willis — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:32:12 +0000

Lovely, lovely! It reads like the beginnings of a story book. You need an illustrator to bring the stroppy strawberry princess to life. Scones, jam and cream for breakfast and still stroppy!

By: lialeendertz

lialeendertz — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:29:47 +0000

That’s horrific! You’ve put me right off my 14th bowl of strawberries.

By: Arabella Sock

Arabella Sock — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:11:36 +0000

My parents grew a lot of nice berries. Once when Granny Grimblesock came to stay she helped by picking, washing and serving them up for pud. As I tucked ino my portion I noticed something on the spoonful making its way to my mouth didn’t look right. An earwig swimming in berry juice! And I got told off for making a fuss!