On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 Janet Baraclough wrote:

You can also top off the jam with candle wax when the jam and the wax
cool you have a perfect seal

I top the jam (while hot) with a circle of waxed paper to seal. You
can buy them ready cut for pennies.

Well, that's the traditional way of doing it. My mother always used
them.

David

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