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Strawberry Jamming Again!

More practical musings ? hints and tips on making strawberry jam Sunshine for the rest of the year



So I?m preparing strawberries for jam, the third evening this week.It is the most productive week of the year as far as our strawberries are concerned. The best are already sold, fresh in punnets and the seconds, some with scarcely a blemish, others hideously deformed but still flavoursome, are piled in heaps waiting to be hulled, halved, weighed and jammed.



Just taking part in this process, I feel a bond back through the centuries with all the women, who preserved, jammed, pickled, prolonging the goodness and abundance of the seasonal produce to last the whole year through. In the days before fridges, freezers, supermarkets, intercontinental fast transport, each...
 

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Strawberry Jamming Again!

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