Aubergine Preserve

Because we don’t preserve and bottle as much as we used to in England, our knowledge of jams is mostly a supermarket range of homogenized ‘stuff to spread on toast’, the most exotic being the occasional jar of marmalade or something with alcohol in it that we buy distant uncles at Christmas. Which is a shame, as we are missing out on a huge range of sweet preserved vegetables and fruits, like the recipe below. It is not a jam, although it is prepared in much the same way, but rather whole p