High Dumpsie Dearie Jam. A delightful autumn recipe using orchard fruits, with a snap ot ginger and a squeeze of lemon. The recipe has been on my website for over 16yrs, but I’m taking few photos and sharing a new printable recipe card. Nobody appears to know where this delightful name originated from, although it has been suggested that it was an enterprising farmer’s wife, using up her windfall fruit that came up with the quirky name. The jam is thought to originate from Worcestershire, although Gloucestershire also lays claim to it. Nevertheless, this is a wonderful jam, which makes full use of three of my favourite autumn fruits – Apples, Pears and Plums. The jam is a lovely deep rosy pink to claret colour (depending on which variety of plums you use) and is delicious not only on bread, toast and scones – but also when used in steamed jam puddings such as Jam Roly-Poly. N.B. It is sometimes known as Dumpsy Dearie Jam.