The Lilli Pilli in my orchard is fruiting, time to make jam. 
This year the tree is bearing fruit over a long period, in prior years there has been only one flush of fruit and its over and done with.
More than enough fruit to make jam. The recipe I use is very simple, just fruit water to cover and the same weight of fruit to sugar. Some people add lemon and / or pectin I find it sets with out and prefer to have the pure flavour tone of this native fruit.
First remove the seed, not all fruit are fertilised, but all need to be broken open to check.
I weigh the fruit then just cover in water and bring to the boil, once the fruit is tender I add sugar (same weight as the fruit ) then boil until set. I do not like the set to be too firm, as apart from its use as jam, I also use this as a sauce on icecream. The colour of the product is a beautiful pink red with violet highlights.

James and Kay Salter started writing down recipes and notes about guests they had invited for meals and what was served, gradually the notebook was filled and others started, the content of entries were wider in scope taking in interesting things they had read and anniversaries of food events and of people. In 1999 they started thinking about turning this miscellany of notes and jottings into a book, and by 2006 this volume was published. 
There is an entry for each day of the year and takes us from a "Dinner with Lord Byron" on 3 January, through notes on toothpicks on 20 February, the day a patent was awarded for a machine to make them, to a recipe for Polpettone Alla Toscana on 4 April and a menu for a New Years eve dinner. Via buttermilk, Chinese food, Diamond Jim Brady, the Seige of Paris, Egyptian dinner parties, Casanova, forks and Pompeii, to name a very few of the topics covered. 
Light and delightfully written it is also beautiful to handle. This 2010 paperback edition by Knopf is on good paper and with dozens of wonderful illustrations by Fabrice Moireau.
Great to have ready to dip into whenever there is a spare moment, over a cup of tea ? ;  the hardest thing is to stop being greedy and to put the book down after one or two helpings.