My Granny Peggy (Margaret Harrower) used to make jam. I couldn’t appreciate why until later in life. Funny that!!! What frightened me was when I saw the recipe and how much sugar was used. I was horrified. 1kg of fruit :1kg sugar . I decided for myself to make it with 3:1 ratio and it tasted pretty good. This post if for my favourite niece Tayla . She loves my jam. It’s so easy to make, you’ll think twice about buying it again.

Homemade Raspberry Jam

Instructions

1kg of raspberries to 333.333' castor sugar juice of half a lemon
Place fruit into deep pan squeeze juice over raspberries
Add sugar
Stir to incorporate
Let it bubble away. Don't wear slip slops when making jam. Don't let children make jam without your direct supervision. I use a pan because it's quicker. But be careful of it spluttering up. If you are not as comfortable the use a deep saucepan which will minimise the chance of getting hot splutter on you.
Colour starts to get deeper
Bake bread in between
Stir
Viola ready- time taken from start of finish 13:06-13:41. Let it cool down
Decant into glass jars. I didn't weigh the yield. This made 5 jars 4 small and 1 a black cat peanut butter size jar
I make a batch and Freeze. I can't be bothered with the old fashioned way of melting wax over the jam. I have the freezer space so I use it.
I made scones so the jam could be used on them11