Last Sunday Hubby and I hit the blackberry bushes and picked like wild things, chopped up a bag of apples, doshed in the sugar and, having never made jam before, set back to watch the magic.
Unfortunately, it was at the point that we had the mixture on the boil that we realised a some-what crucial flaw in our plan: No jam jars...
Hubby hit the shops just before they closed, managing to grab 6 jars of cheap and cheerful jam. Back home we emptied out the jars, washed and cleaned them, re-filled them with our homemade jam and stuck them under the bed until Christmas.
But then we had another problem, we were stuck with six-jars worth of Tesco Value jam without a home... Our solution? More baking!
Jam Tarts
Jam tarts are delicious and so easy to make.Makes 12-15
225g plain flour,
25g icing sugar(you don’t need much sugar as the jam is sweet)
150g unsalted butter, softened
¼ tsp salt, or use salted butter
1 egg yolk
25ml cold water
- Rub together flour, icing sugar, butter and salt in a bowl until combined.
- Add egg yolk and water, and mix/knead until you have smooth, soft dough.
- I always find pastry works best if you can chill it for a while, so I wrap it in cling-film and pop into the fridge for 20-30 minutes. It makes rolling so much easier!
- Roll out your pastry and using a cookie cutter cut out enough cases to fill a tart-tray and blind bake at a low temperature (160C/ gas mark 3) for 15-20 minutes until the base starts to colour.
- Fill with your choice of jam/curd and enjoy!
If you end up with the amount of jam that I
had, whilst the pastry is chillin’ in the fridge you can start making another
batch of dough… In the end we ended up
with quite production line, and ultimately and awful lot of tarts! I was popular at work the next day!
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