Jam Making Month-by-month : The Jammy Bodger's Guide to Jam Making

Jam Making Month-by-Month is a mixture of practical how-to information combined with plenty of delicious anecdotal, very human, and often funny snippets on the trials and tribulations of making jam. Aimed at the new, younger generation of wannamake-jammers, this stylish book gives all the information a novice jam maker needs to start making their own jams, conserves, curds, jellies, chutneys, and marmalades. Mel provides a handy seasonal guide together with recipes to suit every month, so that the jam maker can make best use of what's in season, seasonal gluts, and free pickings from trees and hedgerows. Plus there are plenty of recipes to make use of any leftover fruit, so nothing is wasted. Jammy Tips are given throughout the book to help 'virgin jam makers' every step of the way, so they really can't go wrong. But hey, if they do go wrong it's not the end of the world because the book includes recipes to make use of the odd unset jam, chewy marmalade, or tasteless chutney too, all provided by Mel as she 'fesses up to her own kitchen disasters. Both refreshing and passionate, Mel Sellings aka the Jammy Bodger brings jam making bang up to date, so move over jam and Jerusleum. Home Farmer magazine

Mel's only been making jam for a year when she contacted the publishers. It wasn't where she saw her life going but a sudden abundance of fruit and veg meant there didn't seem to be an option. And guess what, I know you think I'm going to say it turns out she was good at it, but no, it turns out it's fun and you don't have to be good at it, the fruit does all the work. Mel has 3 jam pans and worries that she might need to get a fourth. She lives in Devon and is now regularly woken up in the middle of the night by ideas for jam recipes.