There is nothing more british than a scone with butter and jam.
Therefore its an irony that my scone recipe is an adaption of an american recipe - Kendall Conrad's apricot scones from her book Eat Well Feel Well Her recipe is for apricot scones and she makes a gorgeous sounding apricot butter to accompany it. However in our house we use raisins or sultanas for the scones as apricots are hit and miss with the kids. And to go with it I like to make a traditional tasting strawberry jam, just in a slightly untraditional way. This jam is a beautiful deep pink colour and tastes delicious (and not really of apples - but I just liked the idea of coming up with a silly name).
The challenge with jam-making on the SCD/ GAPS diet is that commercial pectin must be avoided. Strawberries are not naturally high in pectin so this is why it helps to mash up the strawberries in advance (which releases pectin) and to add apple, which is higher in pectin.
Yield is approx 2 jars.
Ingredients:
800g of strawberries, roughly mashed by hand or with hand blender
150g of cooking apple (approx 1 very large apple), cut into thumbnail size chunks
170g of honey
Method:
- Put the honey, apples and strawberries into a jam making pan (or other heavy based pan)
- Simmer on the smallest ring at lowest temperature until the desired consistency (approx 11/2 - 2 hrs) As it thickens stir often to avoid it sticking
- Pour into the warm sterilised jars and seal immediately
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