We have had a really good crop of strawberries and raspberries from the garden this year, despite the wet conditions. As there has been too much to eat I have been making it into jam. The fruit doesn’t go very far and we tend to only have one or two pots for each bowl of fruit but it should keep us in jam for a few months. After my basic strawberry jam, I have made a rather successful strawberry and chill jam. I also made a few batches of summer fruit jam, mixed strawberry and raspberry. By far my best jam yet, however, was an experimental morello cherry and raspberry jam. Surprisingly the bitter flavour of the cherries and the sweetness of the raspberries creates a nice slightly tart jam. I would like to make more of this but the cherry harvest has been limited and I think it will prove difficult to source bitter cherries in the supermarket.
