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| Townie |
Frugal Raspberry JamI picked up 3 x punnets of raspberries last night reduced from £1.98 per pack down to 40p a pack a saving of £4.74.The result - a half litre kilner jar full to the brim of freshly made raspberry jam... the smell in the kitchen last night amazing. I had some on my toast this morning and its delish, will make some Scones this evening and have some more 
Recipe : 454g Fresh Rasps 454g Granulated Sugar The Juice of 1 x Lemon. Method : Take a heavy based pan and set it on a low heat Empty the rasps into the pan and squish a few to get the juices going Once they have sqished and melted a good bit, add the sugar, still on the low heat until fully dissolved. Bring to a rolling boil and add lemon juice Continue cooking for about 15 mins or so and keep checking a wee bit on a plate for a set (sticky and wrinkly when you run your finger through). Once ready decant into a sterilised warmed kilner or jam jar. Total Cost : £2.00 Rasps £1.20 lemon £0.30 Sugar £0.50 (approx based on a bag of sugar costing £1)  will post pics later when I get home from work
Pic as promised 
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| Julie |
What a good idea to cost your recipe Townie.
I was given a huge bag of plums last Autumn and made them into jam. I added a small muslin bag of spices during the boiling; ginger, cinnamon stick, cloves, allspice etc. and the jam was amazing. Apricot and Almond makes a good jam too and one you can make all year round as you can use dried Apricots. |
| Townie |
Could'nt get picture to load properly.. so here is link to it on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8296413@N05/3368428315/ |
| pete_inthehills |
during the war, raspberry jam was very hard to get hold off and folk would make rhubarb jam and then add little wooden pips and sell it as raspberry.
There grew up a big industry making fake raspberry pips for a while. Its amazing what you find out from that box in the corner that I never really watch. pete inthehills |