Jam Making

As Alex has discovered his inner cook late in life, he has further discovered his inner jam maker! He loves making jam and marmalade. As we are a small family he only makes small amounts at a time, and he always gives some of it away. A few weeks ago he felt a jam making mood come on him. We only had a handful of plums, so he used those and got a few fejoas off a neighbour's tree, found some frozen berries in the freezer and made a small pot of jam out of them. It is delicious and tastes like, and has the texture of, strawberry jam even though its label says "Plum, fejoa and berry jam". As I write he is making crabapple jelly from the crab apples in our garden. He always makes his jam outside on a gas ring he bought for that purpose. It is an idyllic sight from my window, the sun shining and the jam bubbling away happily and Alex pottering and stirring. I think he's really enjoying it. And we'll both enjoy the result.