Tuesday 22 June 2021

In a Jam

June means red juicy delicious strawberries. When I was growing up in sunny Devon, my dad's main product of his market garden was strawberries so June and July were busy times at our house, and he even got a second crop in September. His strawberries often won prizes at the annual village Horticultural Show. We lived close to the seaside, and there were plenty of people on holiday who would buy his fresh strawberries, and he had a regular delivery to markets in South Wales and London.

Strawberries every day! I ate so many strawberries that I broke out in red blobs. My mum would make strawberry jam with the smaller berries, and the jam would last all winter, until the next strawberry season.

I think it must be genetic, and I have jam making in my DNA too.



I've already given some to my neighbours, some will go to friends and family, and the rest will brighten up my breakfasts on snowy winter days.

28 comments:

  1. Home made jam is the best Shammi. I made strawberry jam once ages ago, I remember it being quite tasty but haven't ever made it since, as you say it's a family tradition for you 🍓

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    1. I think it's time for you to make a second batch!

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  2. Grace is right. Home made jam IS the best. We eat very little jam, so it is years since I have made it. My DNA seems to have the chutney making gene.

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    1. Oooooh Chutney, perhaps I should try that this year.

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  3. Amo las fresas y la mermelada te mando un beso

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    1. ¡La mermelada de fresa en un poco de pan fresco sabe a cielo!

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  4. I love to make jam, but my quantities are small. I still share with neighbors though, like you.

    The smell of strawberries is the best. Intoxicating, the smell of summer.

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    1. Strawberries mean home to me as my dad grew them for a living.

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  5. Nothing like good old homemade jam and strawberry is one of the best. I like blueberry and strawberry as my favorites.

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    1. Don't forget raspberry too..... even though it's full of seeds, still tasted great.

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  6. The crop was hit by frosts here, but I was able to pick up a litre yesterday.

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    1. Did you enjoy them with fresh cream or icecream?

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  7. We picked wild strawberries as kids. Today the strawberry fields make it so easy by comparison!

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    1. The wild ones are so tiny! I remember sitting on the grass and eating the little strawberries straight from the plant.

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  8. Oh my, does that look delicious. I love fresh fruit and strawberries is a favorite. Too many for me shoots my blood sugar up and can give me blotches too.

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  9. My mother would turn most of the summer berries from local farms or the markets into jams and put them in the basement freezer.

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    1. The home made jam would last all winter. We can buy it in the supermarket all year round but it doesn't taste the same as mum's jam!

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  10. Mmmm, nothing quite like homemade strawberry jam :)

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    1. I agree, it's worth getting out of bed for strawberry jam on home made bread!

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  11. I'm sure your homemade jam is delicious. Who doesn't love strawberries!

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    1. Such a short strawberry season, so I try to eat as many as I can!

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  12. Home made jams are the best and these looks yummy.

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  13. Love home made jam. Your strawberries look so awesome.
    We make five kinds. Strawberry, sour cherry, apricot, plum and raspberry. About 10 to 20 small jars of each. We will ship half to my kids in London and Canada. Cost be damned. We do wish they would come and get them.

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    1. I made rhubarb ginger jam too, it has a ZING to it, very good on toast.

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  14. The strawberries this year, at least the ones I have bought, have been terrific. I bet your jam is fabulous.

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    1. It's pretty darn good, even though I do say so myself!

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