Quick strawberry jam with vanilla & aniseed

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Preparation info
  • Fills a

    400 ml

    jar
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Whisper of Cardamom

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2024

  • About

The confiture aisle of a good French food hall is a spectacle to rival Mont-Saint-Michel. Expect a wall of glass jars in every jewel tone from scarlet fraise de bois to lucent jellies of soft-set violet petals. Black cherry, white peach, purple fig and four varieties of plum in four rainbow shades. Then come lines of exotically spiced jams: rhubarb and cardamom, apricot with lavender or thyme, rum-spiked raisin and banana, and darkly reduced apples cooked with Calvados and