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Original poster

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

154 replies

MagelanicClouds · 25/04/2015 19:13

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.
Grin

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gotthemoononastick · 26/04/2015 10:14

Spirogyra! Lovely green snotty looking,runny jam.Cheap and hated by boarding school and other institution inmates in some African countries. Hence the name.

Made from a huge tasteless melon and ginger. Marrow would give the same result here.It is lovely!(nostalgic.)

TheNewStatesman · 26/04/2015 12:43

Mulberry jam!

Now that's a jam.

Al jams are fab, though. Except fig jam--it tastes like laxatives.

Nothavingfunrightnow · 26/04/2015 12:49

Port and Plum jam from Boplaas winery in Calitzdorp near Oudtshoorn in South Africa is the best jam in the world.

YABU.

Bowlersarm · 26/04/2015 13:00

Yanbu.

Only raspberry jam, strawberry jam, or shredless marmalade goes on my toast.

OttiliaVonBCup · 26/04/2015 13:13

Tiptree Little Scarlet

Bonne maman fig and orange

Damson
Victoria plum

Morello Cherry.

All lovely.

Agree with apricot, def. the idea of it is better than the jam itself.

queensansastark · 26/04/2015 13:18

SHREDLESS marmalade....Confused Blurrgh....

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 26/04/2015 13:18

MrsAsprey wins the DYAC for the day with recalcitrant and apple jam - hilarious! GrinThanks

I have to say, Magelanic that your mum's fig apple and whateveritwas jam also sounds hideous.

My grandmother made greengage jam, it was lovely, but I've not had it since - and that was in the 1980s! I do love a good bramble jelly too. I made redcurrant jelly once, that was fun! But I'm generally too lazy.
My mum's raspberry jam, 1971 vintage, was the best - and it lasted for years! It had so much sugar in it though, it couldn't possibly go off - nothing stood a chance of growing in it - but as the years went by, it dehydrated and had to be rejuvenated with boiling water Grin; I think I ate the last pot in about 1989.

MrsKoala · 26/04/2015 16:15

Thumb my parents have a huge greengage tree in their front garden. We get a glut every year and I am often up a ladder picking them to stop them falling in the street/neighbours garden (even when heavily pregnant). I make kilos and kilos of jam every year and then give it away to everyone and anyone.

Next time you are in the UK pm me and I'll send you some - it's the least I can do for all the support and help you've given me over the last year. :) anyone else want some can pm me too. We have frigging loads of the stuff! Grin

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 26/04/2015 16:19

Aw thanks, MrsK! Have just missed me - we got home from the UK last week! Won't be back til next year, but I'll PM you then to see if you have any spare :)

morethanpotatoprints · 26/04/2015 16:21

Shredless marmalade is vile.
I love the chunky strong stuff, it's the best.

Lemon curd too, oh I could just eat some and we haven't got any Sad

SeraOfeliaFalfurrias · 26/04/2015 16:22

One of my life's happiest moments was eating fresh-out-of-the-pan homemade doughnuts with homemade plum jam. Oh, it was sooooooo good! All other doughnuts have been ruined for me forever now.

I also luuuurve apricot jam on buttery white bread. Cherry jam is very tasty indeed. And all manner of homemade jams like blackberry are fantastic.

You lack jam imagination.

MrsKoala · 26/04/2015 16:28

Mum and dad are moving this summer (we hope) and there has been genuine hand wringing conversations about what we are going to do without the greengage tree Grin .

I am going to research how to take a cutting. When I worked I used to take carrier bags of the fruit in over a 3 week period every summer. I was famous! people took loads home and came from all 24 floors to eat them.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 26/04/2015 16:33

Oh noooo! You might have to buy a new one and plant it in your own garden... (Not at all self-interested, not me, oh no)

MrsKoala · 26/04/2015 16:39

My back courtyard garden is bloody tiny North facing and not suitable but I am looking at a container smaller bush for the front. So fear not. I am determined to never be without greengage jam even if it isn't at all low carb don't tell BIWI Grin

Tinuviel · 26/04/2015 18:19

I discovered jam-making a few years back: Marrow and ginger is gorgeous and I make a lovely Pumpkin Preserve too. Don't bother with shop bought any more apart from Pineapple Jam, which is delicious and reminds me of my grandma.

I buy Apricot jam too but that is just to fix the marzipan to the Christmas cake - it's too tasteless to put on bread.

Original poster
MagelanicClouds · 26/04/2015 20:45

At last, someone who agrees with me on the tastelessness of apricot jam!

But it would appear that I am generally being unreasonable. Ho him!

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MagelanicClouds · 26/04/2015 20:46

HUM!!!!!
Angry

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HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 26/04/2015 20:52

I have never ventured to make jam or preserves of any kind but this thread is kind of inspiring me!

Strawberry jam is bo-ring.
Seedless raspberry is great.
Apricot is very nice indeed.
But my favourite is Concord Grape Jelly which I have never seen in the UK but is all over the place in North America. So delicious.

nooka · 26/04/2015 22:17

I lived in New york for a bit and one of the many foody things I missed was good jam, as the supermarkets only stocked strawberry and raspberry jam and grape jelly (I later discovered that I needed a specialist store). I think grape jelly is horrible!

I now have a garden with 14 fruit trees and have made many varieties of jam. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so like to mix tart fruit with the sweeter stuff. Strawberry jam is a bit disappointing, but I made a fabulous summer berry jelly last year which was a mix of strawberries, raspberries and currents.

MyCatIsAGit · 27/04/2015 07:25

Blackcurrant jam is easy to make and they are so easy to grow. And cheap, if you want a new bush, cut a tpteig off, put in ground and you'll have berries by the next year.

Never had much success with making strawberry. And apricot jam is tasteless and too sweet. Just horrible. I like the tartness is blackcurrant.

LittleIda · 27/04/2015 12:07

This thread has made me fancy bramble jelly on toasted granary. Will have to get some.

BathshebaDarkstone · 27/04/2015 12:09

YABU. Morello cherry jam is gorgeous.

Stinkersmum · 27/04/2015 13:29

My bff's dad makes gooseberry jam and damson jam. It's awesome.

SunnyBaudelaire · 27/04/2015 13:30

Blackcurrant
Apricot
Cherry

all lush jams!

KittyLovesPaintingOhYes · 27/04/2015 14:09

Jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam jam.......

Aaaarrgghh, all I have in the cupboard is the plum jelly I made last year - tastes of nothing and nobody will eat it so I'm stuck with it and being a bloody martyr won't let myself get any other jam until its gone. Now I really want a jam toasty, any flavour other than bloody plum!

I planted a medlar tree but all the fruit disappeared before I could harvest it - going to try netting this year - has anyone had medlar jelly?