The crabapple tree has really come into its own this year. Last year it gave us enough apples to look good when in fruit and to make a small quantity of jam, but this year it really went to town. The top branches were bent right over with the weight of the delicate pink and [...]
Last weekend we made this year’s batch of crab apple jelly, and this weekend we tried the first of it on some slices of toast. The results were very tasty.
We’re still using up our bumper crop of apples, today combining them with another great hedgerow scavenger fruit, blackberries, to make a delicious breakfast jelly.
A bit of a disaster in the kitchen as, half way through making jam, the bag of fruit pulp falls off the support and into the juice. The mess is almost unbelievable.
Crabapple jelly is a classic autumn jam. It’s easy to make and requires very few ingredients – just crabapples, sugar and water.
