Enid Blyton Strawberry Jam Recipe

The characters in Enid Blyton were always, always eating (when they weren’t solving mysteries or getting into trouble at boarding school), which is why we’ve been sharing a recipe series inspired by her books. We’ve already shared recipe for ginger biscuits, boiled eggs, pork pies and British scones. Today, we’re turning the focus to homemade strawberry jam, which was inspired by a scene from ‘The Mystery of The Strange Bundle’:

“…was a very fine tea- hot, new-made scones, sweet and buttery, strawberry jam, bread and butter, and potted salmon and shrimp paste, small ginger buns, shortbread biscuits, and, of course, the large chocolate sponge, which had a thick cream filling.”

Doesn’t that strawberry jam sound great? Enjoy it on some scones or bread for high tea.

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Strawberry Jam Recipe

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Ingredients

• 500 grams pectin sugar
• 1 vanilla pod
• 1 kg ripe strawberries hulled

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Instructions

1. Halve the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds.
2. Combine the seeds, strawberries and pectin and mash with a potato masher.
3. Place this mixture in a pan over medium heat and allow to heat skimming the foam off as it forms.
4. Take off the stove after 15 minutes and allow to cool.
5. Place into jam jars and refrigerate.
6. Serve and enjoy.