As per this week’s challenge, I have been converting my lovely blackberries, collected from our garden and from ‘foraging’ expeditions near our home, into JAM!
I used this recipe to make my jam. I had 5lb (2.3kg) of blackberries and added about 1700g of sugar. Its a bit too sweet so I would cut this down quite a bit in future.
5lb of blackberries and some water
I clearly made far too much jam as we don’t really eat much of it (we’ll have to start now!) and as my saucepan wasn’t big enough to boil all the stuff properly – resulting in a boiling over incident near the beginning which knocked my confidence a bit.
My tester bits of jam didn’t seem to set ever, but as the boiled over stuff was starting to be jamlike I gave up after a while and jarred it, in the hope that it would set. Thanks to someone on freecycle I had enough jars, but I’m all out now 
Jars of Jam!
This morning I found it did set and was quite tasty – a bit too sweet and quite strong, but definitely edible!
Little pot of jam
This morning, in my baking frenzy, I have made, among other things, jam tarts! (carrot and courgette scones pictured alongside)
Carrot and Courgette Scones and Jam Tarts
Baking frenzy complete, we have ended up with some multiseed bread and fruit shortbread in addition to the above. Yum.
Baking!