Blueberry Orange Ginger Jam.

Ingredients
8 cups fresh blueberries
4 1/2 cups jam sugar
Grated zest and juice of one large orange
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon unsalted butter
Directions
- Working in batches if necessary, pulse blueberries in blender until coarsely crushed.
You should have about 6 cups.

- Measure 4 1/4 cups of sugar in one bowl.
In another bowl- remaining 1/4 cup sugar.

- Zest and juice orange.
You should have 1/2 cup juice.
If you don't, make up the difference with water.

- Combine blueberries, orange zest and juice, granted ginger, and ground ginger in large, heavy saucepan or stockpot.
Stir in jam sugar.
Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly.

- Add remaining sugar all at once.
Stir in butter and return to a full rolling boil.
Boil for one minute.
Remove jam from heat and skim off any foam from surface.

- Ladle hot jam into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace.
Wipe rims of the jars, cover with lids, and screw bands on until just barely tight.
Place jars on rack in pot and cover completely with water.
Cover pot and bring to a boil over high heat.
Boil for 10 minutes.
Turn off heat, uncover pot, and allow jars to rest in water for five minutes.
Remove jars from pot and allow them to rest undisturbed on countertop for six hours or overnight.

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Ingredients:
500g blueberries
1/3 cup brown sugar, light, packed
2 TBS lemon juice
Cook until jam thickens, about 20 minutes.
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Pumpkin pie and ginger cream.

A couple of days ago Maddy, the little girl from next door, brought me a bowl of pumpkin flesh, dug out of a large pumpkin she was carving for halloween.
Here is a slice of the pie I made with it following a recipe I always use and that never fails to go down well.
This pie only gets made once a year and some years I don’t get around to it at all.

Preheat the oven to 180 C / gas mark 4
Make shortcrust pastry to line a 23cm loose-bottomed flan tin: 160g plain flour, 80g unsalted butter, 1 – 2 dessert spoons caster sugar, zest of half a lemon (optional), 1 egg yolk, a drop of milk or water as required.
Rub the butter into the flour, add some sugar and lemon zest if you like then bind together quickly using the beaten egg yolk, adding some milk or water to bring the mixture together and gather it into a ball.
Leave to rest for half an hour in the fridge, wrapped in cling film.
Roll out the pastry and line the buttered flan tin.
Prick the bottom with a fork and place a piece of greaseproof paper and baking beans over the base.
Bake for 25 minutes then take out the oven, remove the beans and paper and leave to cool.
Cook 600g of pumpkin flesh in a pan for approximately 15 mins with just a splash of water; as it cooks it will make its own juice so you don’t want it too watery.
Put the cooked flesh into a food processor (or use a hand blender).
Add to it, 125g soft brown sugar, half a teaspoon each of nutmeg, ground ginger and ground cinnamon, 1 tablespoon honey, grated zest from each of 1 lemon and 1 orange and the juice from half of each.
Process until smooth.
Add 3 beaten eggs and blend together then pour into the pastry case and bake for 50-60 minutes until the centre is set.
Allow to cool then serve dusted with icing sugar and accompanied by whipped cream slightly sweetened with some of the syrup from a jar of stem ginger.

Gloria Nicol grows many of the ingredients for her preserves on an allotment close to her home in the Forest of Dean.
She writes the blog www.laundryetc.co.uk, where you can read more about her preserving.

Confiture de Melon au Gingembre et Citron Vert.

From Clotilde Dusoulier -and Ginette Mathiot's "Je Sais Cuisiner" or "I Know How to Cook". 

Confiture de Melon au Gingembre et Citron Vert - Lime and Ginger Melon Jam