An Emblem of Themselves in Plum or Pear.

[steepholm]

Yesterday the Cotswold project took me back to Fosse Farmhouse, the model for Alice's house in the Kiniro Mosaic anime, in which its homemade jam actually gets a sly bit of product placement on Shinobu's breakfast table...




I was there to talk about the project with Caron, the owner, but happily my visit coincided with the arrival of a group of young Japanese students studying nearby in Bath, who had come to learn the ancient art of baking scones. Here they are, doing just that, in a scene reminiscent of Alice's and Shinobu's lesson in Episode 1 (that took place in the room next door, but the Homepride flour men are prominent in both):



Admittedly yesterday's students weren't making names in dough, but here are some Caron made earlier:



Anyway, the end result was very good, and didn't taste like a cartoon at all:



The homemade jam was plum, not strawberry; Caron can't grow enough strawberries for the purpose, but has a very productive Victoria plum tree. I point that out purely for the sake of scholarship, but research is seldom this delicious.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

The jar illustrated looks a lot more like plum than strawberry, but I suppose if they had a real jar of plum as reference, that explains it!

Victoria plum trees are terrifying when they have a good year. I still have ridiculous quantities of jam....

[steepholm]

I agree about the colour. (Great icon, by the way!)

[tree_and_leaf]

Thank you! I didn't make it, but it's one of my favourites. It's so sunny and cheerful!

[cmcmck]

Maybe they need to come to sunny Shropshire so I can teach 'em Welshcakes? :)

[oliphaunts]

plum jam! oh, I miss english jams. when I discovered damson jam it was like a Revelation.