It all started with me reading this blog entry by Coco & me, one of my favourite blog ever that I discovered not so long ago, to my utter delight... Because there are thousands of blogs out there, and when you happen to land on a lovely one like this... it is serendipitous! (I must admit, that if perchance one happen to 'discover' my ho-hum blog, one would not get too excited). Let me share another that is a great inspiring read : French Laundry at Home.
Anyway so I decided that if Christine Ferber's jams are so good, and France is so far... I must make my own. I found Mes Confitures by Christine Ferber at Kinokuniya, I gasped when I saw the price: nineteen ninety five... I know!! What a steal eh ?
Here are some photographic evidence of my first batch ever : Apricot and Vanilla.
Never really impressed by apricots, I was willing to give it a go as they were a plenty and looked beautiful with pink rosy hue.
One day and about half a kilo of sugar later.
Pardon me to gloat, consistency aside I do think it looks quite all right...
I haven't yet opened my jar, I made a batch of 4 and sold 3 on a charity drive for the flood victim. One clientele said that the jam is too runny. Oups! But I'm only jam queen in training after all.
Some of us prefer runny jams. Especially marmalade.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I made jam it was like rubber.
Looks good.
ReplyDeleteI love lime jam but I still can't make a nice one.
It always turn bitter.
Can you try making lime jam and teach me??
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