Easy Christmas Jam is a cranberry and apple jam, flavoured with orange and mixed spice (without pectin). Enjoy this wonderful jam at tea time as a spread or like cranberry sauce along with roast turkey. Making Easy Christmas Jam couldn’t be quicker or simpler as there is no muslin bag needed to be filled up…
Category: Preserves
Discover all my delicious preserve recipes. Everything from jams, jellies, marmalade and fruit curds to chutneys and peanut butter!
Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam (small batch)
Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam (aka Seedless Bramble Jam) is a delicious small batch jam made with just 3 ingredients: blackberries, granulated sugar, freshly squeezed lemon juice and no pectin. It has a concentrated blackberry flavour with a delicious tang provided by the lemon juice which complements it beautifully. How did this Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam…
Watermelon Jam (no pectin recipe) – 2 ways!
This delicious Watermelon Jam recipe is made without pectin and is so beautiful and summery with its vibrant pink colour! You can make it 2 ways, plain or with white rum! I’m so excited to bring you this delicious, quick and easy, no pectin Watermelon Jam recipe which can be made 2 ways, with or…
Easy Crab Apple Jelly + video tutorial!
Easy Crab Apple Jelly is sweet, tangy and delicious, the perfect way to preserve crab apples! It doesn’t require a jelly bag, stand, upturned stool or kitchen door knob, just a colander and a pair of tights, muslin or tea towel set over a pan. Couldn’t be easier! In early September I went off looking…
Mixed Tomato Chutney
Mixed Tomato Chutney is an utterly delicious way to preserve ripe and green cherry tomatoes. It has a wonderful chilli kick which is contrasted with the sweetness of sultanas and Muscovado sugar. It’s the best tomato chutney recipe I’ve ever tasted! When I originally made this recipe back in 2013 I’d been gifted packets of…
Sloe & Apple Jam + video & pitting hacks!
My Sloe & Apple Jam recipe is made with just 3 ingredients and no pectin or jam sugar. Wonderfully tart yet sweet, sloes and apples make the perfect pairing in this exquisite jam. Recently I went foraging for elderberries to a location I’d been told about that also had sloes. I didn’t find any elderberries…
Simple Elderberry Jam with step-by-step video tutorial!
If you’re looking for a delicious and Simple Elderberry Jam recipe with seeds and no pectin they you’ve come to the right place! Follow my step-by-step video tutorial to ensure success! After a long break due to 2020 doing it’s best to stop me in my tracks I’m finally back with this Elderberry Jam recipe…
Granny’s Quick Lemon Curd – tangy & delicious + video!
My Granny’s Quick Lemon Curd is the best recipe for lemon curd I’ve ever come across. You won’t find a quicker or easier lemon curd recipe plus it tastes amazingly tangy and delicious! The History of Granny’s Quick Lemon Curd My grandma’s lemon curd recipe sat in my recipe box for at least a couple…
Snowball (Eggnog) Curd with step-by-step video!
Snowball (Eggnog) Curd has all the flavour of a festive Snowball cocktail intertwined with classic lemon curd. Seriously good and perfect for gifting or enjoying on your Christmas morning croissant! In recent years the Snowball cocktail has become the favourite Christmas drink in our household. It’s is a mixture of Advocaat, lemonade (carbonated) with optional…
Plum & Apple Jam with step-by-step video!
Plum & Apple Jam is the perfect autumn jam. Delicate in flavour with a beautiful pinkish red colour it’s perfect for breakfast or teatime! Today I’m rejuvenating my very popular Plum & Apple Jam recipe with some new photography and a few tweaks to the copy! After receiving a glut of plums from my mum…