Tag: Pears. Rowan

• This has been a bumper harvest for apples and pears.
• My rowan tree – jarzębina -has also had loads of berries.
• I found this recipe which used all 3 of these fruits.
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• NOTE – Never eat raw rowan berries.
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• The quantities of each fruit and sugar were exactly the same.

INGREDIENTS

• 1kilo of rowan berries – cleaned from stalks
• 1 kilo of washed and peeled cooking apples
• 1 kilo washed and peeled pears
• 1 kilo of granulated sugar
• 500ml of water & water for washing the rowan berries
• Piece of cinnamon
• 6 whole cloves.

METHOD

• Prepare your jars and sterilise them in a low oven,
• Put the berries into hot water and bring to the boil.
• Leave to one side and then sieve the berries.
• Chop the apples and pears into small cubes.
• Bring the 500ml of water to the boil with the sugar.
• Add the cinamon bark and the whole cloves.
• Add the rowan berries, apples and the pears and bring to the boil.
• Lower the heat and simmer till the apples and pears are translucent.
• Fill the jars with the hot jam.
• Cover with the lids when theses are cold.
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• Excellent with meats, fish, paté and cheese.