Huntsman's Jam

Ingredients

• 1 lb elderberry, stripped from the stalk
• 1 lb blackberry
• 5 apples, cored, peeled and sliced
• 1 lemon, juice and zest of
• 2 lbs sugar
• 1-2 cloves

Directions

1. 1

   Wash all your fruit, especially berries picked from the garden or hedgerow.

2. 2

   Carefully, using a fork,strip the Elderberries from the stalk into a bowl to prevent them from going everywhere.

3. 3

   Zest and juice the lemon.

4. 4

   Core and peel and slice the apples.

5. 5

   Put the berries, zest ands juice in a good pan and crush them together to break the berries.

6. 6

   Stir in the sugar and fling in the sliced apples.

7. 7

   Bring slowly to the boil and continue at boiling as slowly as possible stirring fom time to time.

8. 8

   Skim the froth off as the jam boils until you reach setting point and then take from the heat.

9. 9

   Boil some water and sterilise your jars with it and mind your fingers.

10. 10

    Carefully pour or ladle your jam into the jars seal, label and then have a nice cup of tea with some of your jam on toast or scones as is to your liking.