NOTES from the JAM CUPBOARD

by MARY TREGELLAS

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New hardcover book, 192 pages, published 2012

Jams, jellies, curds, marmalades, chutneys, cordials, sauces, liqueurs

A wonderful collection of recipes for preserves of all kinds, including ideas for how to eat them and recipes for cooking with them. It's mostly about jam .... but interspersed with anecdotes, literary quotations and a little bit of history, with the odd folk remedy thrown in for good measure. Beautiful to look at, entertaining to read and practical to follow.

If you grow vegetables or herbs or have a prolific fruit tree in your garden you may often end up with far more produce than you can eat. What can you do with all those tomatoes or oranges? Make Mary's Tomato ketchup or Orange curd! That huge basket of plums? Chinese Plum sauce or Plum crumble cake! Notes from the Jam Cupboard is a wonderful collection of over 90 easy-to-follow recipes for all kinds of delicious sweet and savoury preserves, and ways to cook with them. You will find recipes for sweet jams, jellies and marmalades, savoury pickles, chutneys and ketchups, as well as luscious cordials, vinegars and oils. There are also a host of recipes using your homemade preserves as ingredients.

Whether you are new to preserving or a seasoned jam-maker, this beautiful and inspiring book will have you reaching for your apron.

Contents include

• Introduction
• Preserving the season
• Useful equipment
• A note on ingredients
• General preserving tips
• Luscious
• Juicy
• Crunchy
• Tangy
• Tropical
• Wholesome
• Aromatic
• Wild
• Intoxicating
• Daily bread (and other baked goodies)

Notes from the Jam Cupboard is a UK publication. All measurements are in metric, imperial and metric cup & spoon

About the author

After a childhood spent in Devon, Mary Tregellas studied Medieval German at Oxford, lived briefly in Austria and the US, and has travelled the world with professional orchestras, for whom she organises international concert tours. She attributes her passion for preserves to her Eastern European heritage, an inability to let anything go to waste and a love of all things homemade. Since acquiring a garden with a prolific fruit tree over 12 years ago, she has been quietly honing her preserving skills in her small kitchen in southwest London. Mary produces artisan-made preserves for friends and family and sells her produce at local fairs. She lives with her husband and three young sons, who are known collectively as the Tasting Panel

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Notes from the Jam Cupboard by Mary Tregellas