Jammy bank holiday.

August 31, 2010 - Posted by Thomas Pierre

My next door neighbour’s apple and plum tree are heaving with fruit, most of it on the ground. On Saturday while she was mowing the lawn i asked her why she was letting them go to waste. “What can i do with them?” she replied. I suggested jam, chutney,crumbles and cakes but was informed she didn’t know how to do any of them. When she offered me some plums i happily accepted. I had used up all my jars last week end making green tomato chutney so on Sunday i went to Lakelands and bought a dozen 1lb jam jars. When i got home i collected the wind fall apples that had fallen inyo my garden, added them to the plums and made up 5 jars of jam. I took a jar of the jam round and gave it to my neighbour as a thank you. Yesterday i decided to use the glut of home grown cucumbers up by making cucumber and ginger jam. made 4 jars. I added a little chopped chilli to it and its turned out really nice. After cleaning up and leaving the kitchen the door bell rang. It was my neighbour with a bag of apples and another bag of plums. Have decided to make plum chutney today but need to go and buy more sugar. May need more jars too. Will have enough jam and chutney to last through the year and thats after giving out to daughters and friends. Not complaining thou.

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