jam HOT
soft fruit season, innit – get yer sugar thermometers out, guys and gals.
this week’s show is inspired entirely by the title of the first track, the deviants’ “normality jam”. the deviants were founded in the 60’s by mick farren who was a fellow curator here on basic.fm amongst many other marvelousnesses and finally gave in to the side effects of life lived in full during a set at the borderline, london, last week. ‘way to GO, mr farren!
reality jam – the deviants
reflux – susumu yakota
a tooth for an eye – the knife
gold (todd terry mix) – sugarcubes
hot pursuit – naked allstars
creator – santogold
the narcotic suite: skylined – the prodigy
poet – sly and the family stone
bicyclette – jean-louis daulne
everything – radio citizen
humbox – opiate itch
burning blood – pinch & shackleton
stick it – golem!
sticky end – the orb
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blurb / recipes continued:
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. the only jam i’ve learned to make because I can’t see how another recipe can be any better:
this only works with blackcurrants – I can’t remember what the exact chemical is, but there’s something that’s only in blackcurrants that makes all the usual faffing in jam making unnecessary – pectin and all that [stops pretending to know anything much about jam making].
You need:
300g/10½oz fresh blackcurrants
300g/10½oz sugar
juice of 1 lemon (not an enormous sicilian one – just supermarket size)
freshly grated nutmeg to taste
(a titch bit of freshly ground cinnamon and clove goes down well if you’re making this for christmas presents but is a bit too “seasonal” for general consumption)
- pick all the stalks from the blackcurrants, place the fruit in a saucepan, cover with 250ml/9fl oz water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 20 minutes, or until the skins of the currants are very tender and the liquid has almost evaporated.
- add the sugar and lemon juice, bring to the boil then cook until the mixture reaches 105C/220F on a sugar thermometer.
- leave to cool for a few minutes then pour into hot, clean jars and seal immediately (there are instructions for how to sterilize the jars in the show)
it works – trust me!