To think any flavour of jam apart from srawberry or raspberry is just nasty?

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DH keeps trying to persuade me to try some peach and ginger jam a friend gave him. It looks brown and nasty and smells like something rotted in it.
My mum swears by fig, plum and apple jam. It looks like someone else ate it first and nothing will tempt me to try.
In fact any jam I have tried that isn't strawberry or raspberry has just tasted bad and been a bitter disappointment.

Redcurrant jelly shits all over strawberry and raspberry jam. I can actually remember the first time I tasted it, because up until then I had no idea that any foodstuff could be truly divine. It was a revelatory moment, on a par with (and around the same time as) the discovery that kissing boys was actually quite nice, really.

Wholemeal toast left to cool a little, salted butter, blackcurrant jam...anyone with me?!

I'll have a slice please, polly

Me too Polly! In fact that's one reason I don't buy whole bread much - I'd have to eat too much of it exactly as you suggest !

Cherry jam is the absolute best but I am also going to throw grape jam into the mix as well. I brought some back from the states and it was freaking delicious.

YABVVVU

Have you ever tried damson plum jam on French buttered brioche?! It's heaven.

Tomato jam is super nice

Yes Polly - I love blackcurrant jam.

Nicki - what cherry jam do you recommend then? I've never found one that really tastes of cherry sufficiently for me!

We bought a small cherry tree recently, but I doubt any cherries it produces will survive long enough to be turned into jam! We also used to have a really good pyo farm not too far away and I made several batches of strawberry and raspberry jam which were better than bought. Too nice to give away!
Sadly it closed last year so I've been buying my jam.
I have attempted chutney - green tomatoes - which everyone said was lovely, but nobody wanted a jar and it all just sat in the fridge for ages. DH would ask if we had any pickles so I'd mention the chutney and he'd just say 'oh'. He said he liked it, but never ate any.
In the end I threw it away and have never ventured into chutneys since.

I adore jam! Except any with ginger in.

We have one jar of blackberry left from last year and I'm saving that until this year's blackberries appear then I'm cracking that one open to have on crusty bread with real butter. Can't wait.

Blackberry is lovely.

I do agree that some of the weird flavours are done for novelty rather than taste.

Just because it's possible to jam it doesn't mean you should.

Are you buying value jams OP?

I make all sorts of jams from foraged fruit - we have plums, cherries, greengages, elders, mirabelles, sloes, apples all growing wild near us - the thing with wild food is because it is wild the flavours are much stronger than farmed fruit. But the queen of them all is quince. Quince jelly/cheese is amazing.

My other favourite is parsnip and horseradish relish - yes it sounds crackers but it is a sweet jam and is very very nice.

My favourite savoury pickles are runner bean relish and pickled courgettes. As long as they are home grown of course. From the supermarket just doesn't count. In fact this year I am growing runner beans just to make the relish.

My greengage jam is gorgeous and my nanas logonberry jam was amazing.

Blackcurrant is horrible and as for strawberry...bleeerck.

I do like a good marmalade too. And apricot, damson and raspberry jams are all also lovely.

Don't give up on your first chutney attempt! Try adding things you all like; brown sugar and mustard seeds, apple abd spices.

I like a good tart greengage jam. I make a great cherry jam with bought chrcherries when they are at their cheapest, it's very popular.

And gooseberry jelly [just saw the jar in the cupboard].

Absolutely beautiful red gooseberry jelly. Lovely.

I posted very quickly up thread, but I've more time now and I do love a good jamming & foraging thread! As my user name hints, I'm rather fond of the humble damson . For those struggling with a glut of damsons, St Delia's damson chutney recipe is the business and the full batch lasts us most of the year. Damsons also freeze well allowing you to make fresh jam throughout the year (and as a bonus they slip their skins and stones super easily once defrosted), and as someone else also noted a good couple of pounds in a damson gin recipe is a wondrous thing! I'm also going to try them in a curd soon too - I've curded lots of fruits recently and there are some real beauties. I hate raspberry jam but raspberry curd is wonderful, as is lime which I prefer even over lemon, blueberry curd is great, and blackberry okay, cherry I haven't got to yet but will do soon as well. My cupboards are always will stocked with at least four or five homemade jams/curds/chutneys! And I clear my freezer in early August ready to deal with harvest gluts. Oh and I must give a special mention to blackberry and vanilla vodka - quite possibly the nectar of the gods!

Blackcurrent is divine
So is apricot

Rhubarb & Ginger, red current, cherry, plum, onion (more savoury than sweet), bramble, raspberry, strawberry - all lush but have to be home made. The shop bought jams are too sweet and have too little fruit in. Frozen fruit works surprisingly well, especially for cherry.

My Dad's blackberry jam was amazing. Never had a jam since he died that lives up to that. Can't stand strawberry jam.

I love a good raspberry jam but my neighbours recalcitrant & Apple is absolutely gorgeous.

I cannot stand strawberry jam, too sickly sweet for my liking and I'm yet to taste a good strawberry jam.

Blackcurrant & Apple jam for ffs.

YABVVVU. Plum jam is the best thing ever. Apricot is best for croissant and pastry. Marmalade is very tasty with good butter and nice crusty bread.

Homemade kiwi fruit jam is lovely as is pineapple jam too

Recalcitrant apples! I'd try that jam MrsAsprey!

My mums homemade marmalade is rhe best I've eaten, only the really expensive ones come close. Have bought more expensive jams and cheaper ones, but inevitably they end up getting chucked away due to mould or crystalisation.
However DS is now 4 and the only sandwich he will eat is a jammy one. I'll let him pick some flavours. He didn't like my mums fig jam though. It really was nasty - poo brown and weirdly fibrous.
BTW, the peach and ginger jam I mentioned smells like someone had a lot of rotten peaches and didn't know what else to do with them.