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Preserving and Pickling
The HOPE Box scheme produces lots of fresh vegetables in season and sometimes you can have too much of a good thing and not necessarily want to eat it all at the same time. Preserving and pickling are age-old methods of saving much of the fresh produce for later and can produce delicious results of their own.
Easy Raspberry Jam
Ingredients
1kg fresh rasps
1kg sugar
Method
Place raspberries in pan on a low heat to cook very slowly for 20 minutes.
Add the sugar which has been heated in a microwave or oven and stir until it has dissolved completely.
Turn up the heat and boil rapidly for ten minutes - make sure you have a large pan for jam making because it is at this stage you are liable to cover the cooker with bubbled over jam!
Remove from the heat and put some onto a saucer that has been in the freezer for 5 minutes. When the jam is cool push with your finger and if you see a crinkly skin on the surface it has set. If not boil again for 5 minutes and repeat the testing process.
Once set, add a knob of butter to the jam and allow to cool before filling warmed, sterilised jars.
Raspberry jam is one of the easiest to set and the jam can even be made without the sugar - simply follow the method above but don't add any sugar.