It was very fashionable to have the shields of visiting guests made up as huge jam tarts.

This sort of thing was called a 'conceit'

The Tudor kitchen would have a large stock of homemade jams.

Boiling up fruit with sugar to make jam was a way of preserving the fruit from their orchards.

This jam tart uses pastry, strawberry jam, blackcurrant jam, gooseberry jam and apricot jam.

You could design a shield and make up a your own Tudor 'conceit'! .