Robertson's made this with no pips. (Robertson's Bramble Jelly)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Robertson's Bramble Jelly
Date:	28/09/07 (183 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: tasty

Disadvantages: fattening

IN 1859 James Robertson worked as a grocer and his wife Marion could not bear to see the excess oranges go to waste so she made orange marmalade. From this The Robinsons jams and preserves company began in Paisley Scotland. Robertson’s has now being bought up (as many other small firms have) by premier foods.

One of the Robertson’s jams I like is the Bramble jelly. I bought some of this recently, (Yes I know I should have made my own but lack of time.).

This jam comes as you might guess in a jar, this contains 340g.

In this bramble jelly there is 63% sugar per 100g. (I know mum always used = amount fruit and sugar less than that she said did not set and keep so well.)
In this Robertson’s jam there are 52 calories in 20g that’s 260 per 1000 g


Now why did I buy bramble jelly? Well I have always loved bramble jelly. My good old mum did not buy hers but made pots and pots jars and jars of it every year. I have strong memories of the bramble jelly dripping from the muslin bags in the kitchen and the joy of licking the saucepan out , wiping a crust around to get the last dregs.(these memories are late 50’s early 60 memories) Thank you mum for those memories .

I have my glass jar of Robertson’s bramble jelly here. I put my knife into the jar the
Robertson’s Bramble jelly is a good consistency, not to runny but be care full so it does not fall of my knife before I get it over the toast. It’s a dark red purple almost black. . It has no lumps or seeds in it. I am not keen on blackberry jam because of the seeds; they give me the pip... The jelly on my knife is translucent I can sort of see through it.

Plop it fell off my knife onto the toast I spread it on evenly. The warm jelly spread as it melts when warm. Excuse me while I eat this while the toast is still warm. Mmmmm munch mmmmmmmm tasty mmmm sweet mmmm blackberry flavour mmmm smooth crunch lovely crisp warm toast, tasty , sniff sweet blackberry aroma mmmmm munch lick lips , savour . OHHhhhh that was good. I love toast and blackberry jelly. I can taste the autumn flavour and relive my childhood tasting.
Actually Robertson’s blackberry jelly is nice on toasted crumpets in front of the fire when I get home from school on a cold winters night.
Mum used to put blackberry jelly into make jam tarts. Robertson’s blackberry jelly makes a tasty jam sponge. Or you could just have a blackberry jam sandwich.

Robertson’s Bramble/Blackberry jelly is available from a lot of shops The price I paid in Tesco , I am sorry I can not remember but I think it was between £1 and £1.45 . The price was similar to other brand name jams.


Thanks for reading Mary

Summary: A traditional hedgerow jelly