September marks peak season for homemade jam and fruit preservation

Jam season is here - bottle that sunshine now to brighten up the winter

September’s preserving season is a race to capture the heady flavours of summer fruit Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast The ideal time to make lemonade, when lemons are juicy and plentiful and cheap, is in the dead of winter, when the last thing you want is a cooling glass of lemonade. Similarly, jam-making is best done on a grey November afternoon, when the windows are steamed up and the kitchen is the warmest place in the house. Winter is exactly when you want to be standin...

By Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer