Brambleberry Jams
Alice McIlhagger was previously a Geography teacher and DOE Planner. She is now a mummy at home in a rural village running my own small business from the kitchen table and cooking on her old red AGA while the children are at school. She grows as much of the ingredients as possible in her garden. The strawberries are always the funny shaped ones from a farm a mile from home. She is part of a community gardening group and she also forages for fruit from the hedges around Portmore Lough nature reserve in the autumn.
Her business has grown from her interest in home cooking foods for her own family with ingredients that have travelled as short a distance as possible. She has jammed every autumn for many years and developed many techniques and tips to get a good set without needing to use added pectin. The jars are then all hand labelled and decorated with mostly re-used fabrics and finished with a pretty ribbon.
