7 traditional english jam Recipes

self-raising flour, salt , to taste, baking powder, caster sugar (superfine granulated), butter, egg, beaten and mixed with, milk, fresh double cream, to serve (heavy cream), jam , of your choice, butter , to spread, sultanas , raisins (optional) or 2 oz currants (optional)

trifle sponge cakes (or a ready-made lb cake or similar), english custard , made from bird custard powder, whipping cream (heavy ), frozen raspberries (better than fresh), strawberry jam, peach slices or 2 very ripe fresh es, skinned and sliced, cooking sherry, sliced almonds, toasted

trifle sponge cakes or 8 -12 oz stale sponge cakes, raspberry jam, sweet sherry, frozen raspberries, partially thawed or 12 oz fresh raspberries, ratafia biscuits or 4 oz amaretti or 4 oz macaroons, milk, vanilla pod, egg yolks, caster sugar , plus a little, caster sugar, for sprinkling, cornflour, whipping cream, sliced almonds, toasted, glace cherries or fresh raspberry, to decorate, silver dragees, to decorate

plain flour, salt, grated nutmeg, tps ground cinnamon, rind of 1 lemon, grated, glace cherries, chopped dried citrus peel, golden raisins, plain raisins, currants, butter, golden caster sugar or finely ground demerrara sugar, eggs, beaten, milk, almond paste (marzipan), apricot jam

egg yolks, whole milk (1 cup plus 4 tbsp), sugar, whipping cream, cornstarch , dissolved in 4 tbsp water, vanilla, nutmeg, ground, whipping cream, poundcake (two days old) or 1 -2 small sponge cake (two days old), cream sherry (use a good 1), raspberry jam, frozen raspberries, thawed and drained (not traditional)