33. Carrot Conserves

In its simplest form, a conserve is nothing more than a foodstuff that been processed with sugar. When I was a kid, our local brand, Mary Ellen Jams, had the slogan: ‘a cup to a cup’. They explained that the slogan meant that there was a cup of sugar for every cup of fruit. That has been my jam recipe ever since. As a means of preserving fruit, jams have been around for centuries. Two hundred years ago, most general cookbooks would have a whole section dedicated to preserving fruit in a myr