Why do I....
Make jam and chutneys and other preserves. I primarily do this to feed my family. However I also get much more variety and choice of foodstuffs by making it myself. I also like the process of taking time out to make something special for my pantry shelf. I grew up in the days when we were given jam sandwiches or jam on toast as a snack something to eat anything to fill the gap. To this day I still really enjoy both. Thick toast slathered with butter and home made Raspberry, Strawberry or Strawberry and Rhubarb jam or Bramble Jelly or Blackberry and Apple jam is superb and bread and jam if the bread is new and fresh is absolutely lovely. I grew up in a family who grew their food because they had to. They were land rich, cash poor and the only way you survived in a tiny Lincolnshire village with no shops was to keep a good pantry especially during the colder months of the British Winter where villages such as the one my Nan lived in used to get cut ...