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    Apr 29, 2020 6 minutes
    by Managing Editor Sarah Feeley

    PURSUITS

    Capturing summer flavours

    Opening a pot of jam unleashes fragrant memories of lazy sun-soaked summer days. Homemade jam is an especially meaningful gift, and enables the maker to not only deal with a glut in the garden, but to adapt the recipe to suit individual tastes, like popping a vanilla pod into bubbling strawberry jam.

    Like so many things in life, jam went so far out of fashion it was adopted and adapted by a new school of artisans who pushed it in new unexpected directions. Raspberry & hibiscus flower, rhubarb & cardamom, pink gooseberry & elderflower and damson & black pepper are some of the seasonal jam flavours currently on offer from London Borough Of Jam’s online shop ( londonboroughofjam.com ).

    Jam maker Kylee Newton of Newton & Pott in East London ( ) and author of is another pioneer whose experiments have resulted in jam with less sugar and more intense flavour, for

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