I love a homemade Christmas gift, and my good friend (and author) EE Montgomery always spoils the members of our writing group with homemade preserves. This year I scored a jar of lilly pilly jam. For the overseas readers Lilly Pilly is an australian native tree, commonly cultivated in suburban gardens - it makes a drought resistant hedge, although it doesn't fare so well next to swimming pools, as we discovered in our previous house. Here's some photos of Lilly Pillys growing in our suburb - the first at the local park (I so wanted to prune that to a Christmas tree shape) and the second, from the sidewalk, overhanging the fence. I saved opening the jam until after Christmas, went down to the local bakers early on Sunday and grabbed a vienna loaf with seeds and cranked out the coffee machine and the toaster.
Mmhhhmmm.. it was great. Tart, sweet, a touch of lemon. Crispy toast, piping hot coffee. It's hard to say that this surpasses last year's cherry jelly, but its definitely the winner so far in the jam steaks. It made me want to start making jam, it was that good. Nothing like the over sweetened commercial varieties from the supermarkets. You could taste the fruit (which I would call tart and crisp). Tell me, what sort of homemade Christmas delicacies did you make or eat this Christmas? Comments are closed.
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