A Little Jammy Dodger

It’s plum season, which means that anyone who’s ever even looked at a plum is now inundated with them. When you have that many plums what do you do?
You make jam is what you do.

Locate plum tree.

Locate plums.
We are in business.

Who is that!? A SECOND plum tree???

Beauties. Not for today. Back to the main event.

And then a few lemons for safety. You always need a few lemons hanging around when you’re making jam.

Ready to jam!

Wash the plums

Destoned and chopped

Um…

Aaaaaaah

Panic

Jam!

More plums

Pickled plums (Disgusting do not make these)

Spicy plum sauce (Very odd foamy texture from being blended??? Do not recommend.)

$8 wine called Forget Me Not that was chosen because it was cheap, and the recipe said fruity and this wine claims to be that and I don’t know anything about wine to disagree with that.

Milliners everywhere are jealous of this look.

Very sticky.

Unforgettable wine: Mulled

Mulled wine jam! Thank you Sainsbury’s website.

More mulled wine jam (this batch had cherries in it too). And some plum sauce!

Why does this keep happening????

Side quest: Rhubard Revenge

The recipe called for 10 Cups of rhubarb? I did my best but come on what is that, just use the metric system!!

Rhubarb Jam.
That’s what you get for hogging all the sunlight.

Night fruit (This was the night I got chased out of the other plum tree by a night wasp.)

The last of the plums*
*The plums not being guarded by an angry night wasp.

Brandy Plums*
*There might have been only 4 tbsp of brandy instead of 7 tbsp, fight me I wasn’t going out and paying $50 for 3 tbsp of brandy.

The last batch.
(I was so desperate to not have any more plums that this might have been a quadruple batch. Lucky I have a giant cooking pot now!)

And that’s Series 1 of Jam for 2021!
Look forward to future series including, Apple, Loquat, Habañero…