The thing with strawberries, is they look delicious, but you blink and they're going soft and then mouldy. Well this time I decided to preempt that disaster by making the rest of my strawberries into home-made jam. This is the first time I've made jam, so I didn't want to make a huge batch.
I searched for a few recipes online. I wanted to keep this simple, so ended up taking a basic recipe of strawberries, apple (which provides natural jelling), sugar and some lemon juice. I added a little honey and vanilla essence to mine as well.
Cut strawberries and grated apple in the pan.
With the sugar added and starting to cook.
At this point I thought 'oooh it would be nice to make some scones to go with the jam!' so I quickly knocked together a scone mixture using what I had, which turned out to include no eggs and no milk (self-raising flour, pinch of salt, sugar, powdered milk, water, vanilla essence, lemon juice, butter).
Just 4 as there's only me. =)
Once the jam had simmered for a good while and thickened, I decanted into a couple of jars. Could have put it all in the big one, but I decided to do a little jar for a friend who made me some lovely plum jam last summer. (I did taste it first to make sure it was edible, lol, and it's very nice, although also very sweet. When I make this again, I'll use less sugar).
yummy scones. =) I'm not a big fan of cream, so I just have mine with butter and, of course, the jam.
A very British tea. Served with Earl Grey tea, of course. ;)
