Jam Archives - Kitchen Garden Magazine

Four options for storing and preserving produce

5th September 2023 Steve Ott Features, Tips and Advice

Kitchen Garden editor Steve Ott looks at some simple ways to store produce through the winter to save money, brighten your diet and even provide some home-made luxuries and gifts. No matter how well we plan, having more produce than we can use at any one time is a common problem. But with prices rising ever higher, wasting food simply…

AUTUMN JAM WITH DAMSON, APPLE & PEAR

31st August 2023 Steve Ott Recipes

Here’s our recipe for a lovely seasonal jam that will brighten up your breakfast table as the months get colder and wetter. Around now is the perfect time for picking damsons and September is the best month for apple and pear picking, so we thought there’s no time like the present to re-share our popular Damson, Apple & Pear Jam…

Chilli and red pepper jam

6th September 2016 Steve Ott Recipes

A delicious recipe by Gaby Bartai ‘Jam’ is a bit of a misnomer here. It’s more of a jelly, and I wouldn’t recommend it for breakfast toast – but it’s very good in sandwiches, on burgers and the like, or with cheese and biscuits. Note that you do need to use jam sugar, which contains added pectin, or it won’t set.…

Rhubarb and ginger jam

3rd May 2016 Steve Ott Recipes

Try this simple yet delicious recipe for making use of your bumper crop of rhubarb Once the rhubarb gets underway, there’s no stopping it. When the novelty of crumble has worn off, divert some of the later stalks into this excellent jam. Ingredients (makes two 454g/1lb jars) 700g (1lb 9oz) rhubarb, chopped 700g (1lb 9oz) sugar 40g (1½oz) crystallised ginger,…