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Cold sweet dishes Rhubarb Shape and Rhubarb Jelly, recipes from 1930, can use up generous quantities of forced rhubarb from late spring and into early summer.

Loganberries harvested as just ripe fruits can make a well-set jam without extras like lemon juice or pectin.

Knowing how to test for setting point is crucial in the science and art of making jams, jellies and marmalades.

Discounted to £4.50 this week, Delia Smith's book, Frugal Food, encourages less wasting of food. Frugal cookery is also the focus of Fiona Beckett's book, now £9.74.

Pectin is the nature 'glue' in plants that is what makes fruit jam set. Avoid disappointment when making fruit preserves by knowing the basic pectin content of fruits.