Audrey Ellis

Hedgerow Jam

Preparation info
  • Yields

    5–6 lb

    .
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Farmhouse Kitchen
Farmhouse Kitchen

By Audrey Ellis

Published 1971

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Ingredients

  • 8 oz. rose hips
  • 8 oz. haws
  • 8 oz.

Method

Wash and clean the fruit well. Put the rose hips, haws, rowan-berries, sloes and chopped crab apples in a preserving pan, add water to cover, cook until all are tender. Sieve and weigh the pulp. Put the pulp into a pan with the blackberries, elderberries and chopped nuts and simmer for about 15 minutes. Add 2 lb. sugar plus the weight of the hip pulp. Cook over a low heat until the sugar has di