Fecundity

To be honest, my allotment has been a disappointment. I haven't maintained it enough, and little has come up. Except raspberries and a few spuds (along with couch grass and bind weed). Nothing can stop the raspberries (with my help, removing the aforementioned bindweed and couch grass, and last year I just inherited them from the previous owner and then pruned them). So every week this autumn has produced a bumper crop of raspberries (when I get down there). No choice really, but to temporarily freeze and then make jam.
I maybe made jam with my mum when I first was old enough to find it fun, but this is the first time with my own produce.
So. Boil them up with lemon juice

Add the sugar, and panic that is boiling over from pan One and have to transfer excess to pan Two

And finally transfer to jars sterilised in the oven (according to St Delia)

It seems to have set, the proof will be in the eating. M insisted on cleaning up the cooker as she seems to think domestics are her job (she tolerates my intervention in domestic affairs, as I tolerate hers). Now I have gooseberries (from the allotment) and rhubarb (donated), and both frozen, to deal with, to add to my collection of raspberry jam and cucumber (donated) pickle. But as far as I know, nobody likes cucumber pickle, gooseberry jam or whatever you do with rhubarb, so the only result is cupboards stuffed with jars of the above, or giving them to friends or relatives as gifts, only for them to ditch, soonest.