Now is the Time for Making Jam Favours
For those of you who love home made jams and jellies this diary insert I have written is just for you.
Not only are jams and jellies utterly delicious but they also make the most wonderful individual Wedding favours and gifts for your guests and loved ones. Gorgeous tasting jam never fails to please.
Now is the perfect time of year to make these gorgeously tasty treats and in doing so you will feel really rather pleased with yourself and so very rewarded.
In the hedgerows this time of year Blackberries are abundant. Crab Apple Trees are laden also this time of year and very soon there will be Wild Sloes on the Blackthorn Trees. If you are lucky enough to have your own garden orchard, then this time of year will see you with a surplus of plums, pears, quinces and apples.
If you don’t have your own fruit trees then try visiting your local pick-your-own farm. This is far cheaper than going via the big boy supermarkets, is great fun and is also a wonderful way in supporting your local farmer. Pick-your-own- Strawberries are great fun to pick…just try not too eat them all before you get home.
After picking or purchasing all of this gorgeously healthy and often pretty fruit retreat to the kitchen, put on your favourite music and spend a relaxing and rewarding afternoon chopping, simmering and potting up in pretty glass jam jars the fruits of your pickings.
The potting up stage is so enjoyable and this is where you can make your wonderful Wedding Jam Jar Favours and Gifts so very individual to you.
Scour haberdashery shops for gorgeous ginghams, gorgeous chintzy floral materials or plain linens. Better still Antique shops often have gorgeous remnants of vintage fabric or Charity Shops are a fabulous source of pretty materials. Second Hand children’s clothes are perfect for cutting up as they are often made out of pretty designs. On line auction houses are another great way to buy pieces of vintage fabric…there is a world of choice out there. Cut your fabric into larger-than-the-lid round circles. This enables you to cover the lids and tie onto the jars with either garden string or pretty ribbon.
In your finest hand writing write the name of the jam and if you have room your guests name onto old vintage style luggage labels and secure this onto the jar using the string or ribbon.
What is so perfect about these favours, especially if your wedding is next year, is that once made you can keep them stored away somewhere cool and dry and they do in fact get tastier with age….they aren’t called “Preserves” for nothing.
Jams and Jellies really do make the most lovely pretty and deliciously tasty wedding favours and gifts…one that both your male and female wedding guests will just love and appreciate.
Alternatively, Sweet Days and Roses is able to provide Jam Jar favours and gifts. Have a look on our Favours and Gifts page on the website.
So next time you are off on a lovely country walk take time to have a look at your lovely hedgerow and what it offers you for free and you’ll be surprised by what you see in it, and if you can be organised before you go remember to take a trug or container for putting the delicious berries or fruit in that you pick along the way.
