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What is your favourite jam? Mine is almost always strawberry, but with the exception of jam doughnuts, where it has to be raspberry. Despite being exposed to many new jams in my adult life, I still only really like strawberry. I just had some raspberry jam on toast for breakfast (we're out of strawberry) and it was very disappointing.
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I'm all about raspberries over strawberries in terms of real fruit, so I carry that opinion over to my jam (as well as pavlova, doughnut, etc. etc.) choices in the same way, without even considering that strawberry could possibly be better in other non-real-fruit mediums to be honest. And I've never had to regret that opinion, though I'm also happy to accept the superiority of the raspberry over the strawberry is never more pronounced than in the real fruit, once you start adding all the sugar and cooking processes to other forms then the difference is much less of an issue for me.
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Re: Jam
Blackcurrant
Strawberry
Raspberry
for the mainstream ones.
I went to this place:
a few times when I was little, and there were some pretty nice weird flavours that worked. But I really can't remember any of them. Alls I can remember is that kiwi jam is horrible.
Strawberry
Raspberry
for the mainstream ones.
I went to this place:
a few times when I was little, and there were some pretty nice weird flavours that worked. But I really can't remember any of them. Alls I can remember is that kiwi jam is horrible.
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Re: Jam
I don't like jam sandwiches. Marmalade on toast is ok but I couldn't be bothered to buy a jar of it for myself. Jam should be reserved for cakes really, not bread. And yeah, it has to be raspberry for doughnuts.
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Like Matt I massively prefer raspberries to strawberries, but like Mark I'm not really that fussed on any jam/bread combination. Toast and marmalade is good though. Or bread and marmalade. So I guess "citrus fruits" would be my answer - which makes me wonder what the difference is between jam and marmalade - is there one?
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Marmalade is disgusting. That's the difference.Jon Corby wrote:which makes me wonder what the difference is between jam and marmalade - is there one?
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I Hate Jam. (That was the original song from Kiss Me Kate.)
Good bread with good butter is the perfect savoury combination. Why spoil it with sweet mush? Bizarre.
Good bread with good butter is the perfect savoury combination. Why spoil it with sweet mush? Bizarre.
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Re: Jam
It spoils the delicate taste of strawberries to convert it into jam - so my favourites are blackcurrant and taspberry - I agree the latter is better for doughnuts. However, the best for my toast is lime marmalade.
BTW, did you know the author James Tiptree jr. took her pseudonym from a jamjar?
BTW, did you know the author James Tiptree jr. took her pseudonym from a jamjar?
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Re: Jam
I love The Jam!
Proper answer: Blackberry jam or lemon curd (preferably homemade)
Proper answer: Blackberry jam or lemon curd (preferably homemade)
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I used to take strawberry jam sandwiches everyday and put strawberry jam on porridge. Now the only time I eat it is on toasted Nutty Krust, every single morning and night - lovely.
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Re: Jam
I'd imagine any sort of endangered flightless bird boiled up with sugar to make a sweet preserve would be pretty disgusting.Jon O'Neill wrote:kiwi jam is horrible
Anyway, the best proper jams are raspberry, blackberry and blackcurrant. Strawberries aren't tart enough to balance the sugar and you end up with a sickly mush.
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Re: Jam
It depends on context. If it's the filling in a jam tart, it's apricot every time for me - the four non-apricot tarts in a typical pack of six are pretty much ballast. Strawberry or raspberry are perfectly good on toast or with a nice croissant, though.
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I asked our drummer who works in a pub the other day 'would you like to have a jam?' (his drums were upstairs in the pub at the time). He looked at me funny as he knew that I knew that he was working and that it wasn't feasible. Then i said, 'go on, have a jam' and handed him a little packet of jam someone had left after eating a crossant.
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Jam with bits in is bad. Orange and lime marmalade is both lovely, and avoids the bits problem.
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I think you've just mentioned it, Jon - marmalade is made with citrus fruits, although I'm sure I've seen orange jam before now (which is probably a sweeter version of marmalade without any peel or something).Jon Corby wrote:So I guess "citrus fruits" would be my answer - which makes me wonder what the difference is between jam and marmalade - is there one?
Just to add to the discussion, I love the fruit spreads made by Dalfour. No sugar, just fruits and fruit juice. Very nice and possibly slightly less unhealthy.
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Dunno about anyone else, but reading this thread has inspired me to have a jam sandwich(es?) twice now.
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Do you get any choice with doughnuts? You just buy jam doughnuts. Also, is it actually jam? If I found some of that stuff in isolation and it wasn't in something advertised as a "jam" thing, I'm not sure I'd put it with the jam.Michael Wallace wrote:What is your favourite jam? Mine is almost always strawberry, but with the exception of jam doughnuts, where it has to be raspberry. Despite being exposed to many new jams in my adult life, I still only really like strawberry. I just had some raspberry jam on toast for breakfast (we're out of strawberry) and it was very disappointing.
I don't eat that much jam, but when I do I normally quite like it. I'd probably go for blackcurrant, but I think most are quite nice.
As for sweet spreads on toast generally, I quite like lemon or lime curd as well.
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You certainly get a choice of what jam goes in your doughnut at Morrisons, where we made the mistake once of trying their strawberry jam doughnuts and were unsurprisingly disapopinted. I've not noticed at other places, but Morrisons are pretty far down the food chain so I can't imagine they're the only ones who do it.
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Fuck you. Just knocked up some awesome late night drunk pasta.Michael Wallace wrote:Morrisons are pretty far down the food chain