The futile quest for authentic marmalade.

[hirez]

It's that time of year again

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[ms_siobhan]

:-)

Beckett Street Cemetery used to be full of blackberries and I used to make lovely jam from them, it's been tarted up and cleared now so no more brambles but maybe it's just as well as not many folks would eat it when i told them where the ingredients came from.

[hirez]

Cuh. People. They way their little faces go funny when I tell them it's 'Stuff I found in the hedge' jam.

[inulro]

But that's where jam comes from, right?

One of the lovely things that grows in Saskatchewan (Saskatoon berries - kind of like a little, more purple blueberry) grow wild all over the place. When they're in season, half the city would decamp to the valley to pick buckets of them to preserve & make jam out of.

[inulro]

One of the best places in Bristol to get brambles and wild garlic is Arnos Vale Cemetery.

Re: Beckett Street - I worked across the road from there at St James's for two years in the early 90s. It never occurred to me to go scavenge for food. Doh!

[sarah_mum]

I have jars of home-made jam which have moved house with us twice. Elderberry is nice as a novety, but it's not an everydayer.
I contemplated jamming the fruit of the Richard's softfruit garden, but finally gave in to not having the inclination to eat enough of the results.
Still felt odd handing over my collection of empty jars to an enthusiastic freecycler.

[hirez]

Yes to these things.