Kiela proposes to Caz that they open a spellshop, which Caz immediately rejects as dangerously illegal. Kiela counters that they will disguise it as a regular shop, calling their magical wares 'remedies,' and selling jam as a cover. She points to her parents' abandoned pantry full of glass jars and notes the absence of jam at the local bakery, suggesting a market exists. Caz reluctantly accepts when she involves a cookbook in her plan.

Searching the kitchen, Caz finds her parents' recipe book. Kiela tearfully discovers handwritten notes and a raspberry jam recipe in her mother's hand with margin notes from her father, an emotional reminder of her deceased parents who had wanted her to build a life away from the island, not return to it.

Needing ripe berries, Kiela uses a smaller version of her growth spell on the brambles in the garden. The spell still erupts violently, sending raspberry bushes bursting fifteen feet into the surrounding forest, swallowing the back fence. Although the magic is far too obvious to sell, it produces an enormous bounty of ripe raspberries. Kiela tastes one and is overwhelmed by the flavor, having not had fresh fruit since childhood on Alyssium.

Following her parents' recipe and with Caz reading instructions, Kiela picks buckets of berries and cooks her first batch of jam. As she stirs, she reflects on her parents' happy marriage, her father's wish that she find a companion rather than a passionate lover, and her own loneliness in the city, which she always denied. The jam comes out successfully, tasting 'like a memory.' When Caz asks how they will pay for supplies like wax and sugar, Kiela hints she has an idea.