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Jam

It's that time of year when the groaning hedgerows almost demand that we start to preserve things for the long winter months to come. It's not that long ago since jamming and bottling were just a part of life...if you wanted fruit in January you'd better have bottled some in the last days of the summer before. Ben Jackson went out to the tiny village of Burley near Oakham in Rutland to meet a woman who's mission in life is to rekindle our love of homemade preserves, but before we got to talk about jam, she had a bit of a surprise.....

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13 minutes