Homemade preserves are such a joy to make, give and receive that it's a shame many of us find we don't have the time to do it. If you're keen maybe a change of perspective to the way Kathy Paterson goes about it will assist. Rather than thinking of it as one whole hot, sticky day's work, do it little and often. I am in to it with an icecream container of raspberries from the garden (the weather has been kind to the raspberry patch in Central Otago) and I now have three jars of
on the shelf. It took me 18 minutes!
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Following our first frost on Saturday I pulled all the basil and whizzed up