ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Spoon sweets

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard of spoon sweets? They're like little jars of sweet fruit or vegetable preserves that are made to be eaten with a spoon.

So, let's say you have a big bowl of strawberries - but you can't eat them all before they go bad. To avoid wasting them, you can make spoon sweets with them! First, you would wash and chop up the strawberries and put them in a pot on the stove.

Then, you would add sugar and water to the pot and let it all cook together until it turns into a thick, syrupy mixture. This is called preserving the fruit.

Once it's cooked and thickened, the strawberry spoon sweet is ready to be spooned into little jars and enjoyed! You can spread it on toast, use it as a topping for ice cream, or simply eat it straight from the jar with a spoon (hence the name "spoon sweet").

And the best part is that you can make spoon sweets with all kinds of fruits and vegetables - like plums, figs, tomatoes, and even pumpkin! So you can enjoy delicious, sweet treats all year round.