The best flavour of jam

[MrsHathaway]

Shop:

1. Blackcurrant
2. Seedless raspberry
3. Strawberry

Homemade:

1. Damson
2. Gooseberry
3. Strawberry

DC contend that strawberry tops both lists

Clearly I am NBU. Strawberry jam is good jam but definitely not best.

Homemade: Rhubarb and ginger, gooseberry and elderflower, blackcurrant.

Shop bought: blackcurrent, raspberry, cherry.

Two votes for blackcurrent. I love blackcurrents.

Strawberry jam is the work of the devil. All strawberries should only be used for making proper homemade custard based icecream.

Jam is not to be trusted. It gets in your hair, it makes everything sticky and it's awful stuff.

Butter is all you need. Lovely, lovely butter.

Marmalade is generally a jam made with citrus fruits.

I don't buy jam as I make my own. One particular favourite was melon and star anise. Kiwi is nice but not worth the effort as you have to peel and de-seed the fruit.

Fig jam is divine, but it's not very versatile - you can definitely only eat it on white bread. I did have it on a muffin once actually and that was okay, but still basically white dough.
In terms of 'if I could only have one all-purpose jam in my life': raspberry, with bits of course. The person above who advocates bit-free raspberry jam is presumably a toddler.

*Jam is not to be trusted. It gets in your hair, it makes everything sticky and it's awful stuff.

Butter is all you need. Lovely, lovely butter.*

We're not talking about sex, here, WhooooAmI24601! (Are we...?)

Blackcurrant always
Lemon - there is a lemon one made in France, a conserve not a marmalade
Apricot
Raspberry but conserve not actual jam and then only used in semolina pudding due to pips.

Troysmammy The only time I made kiwi jam (just peeled and roughly chopped) has gone down in family history, and not in a good way.

I think it ended up as a novelty Hallowe’en slime green jam tart!

Blackberry
Raspberry
Blackcurrant

Apricot Jam at home on thick granary toast or croissants

Strawberry jam for cakes (obvs)

Blackcurrant jam when in hotel in little pots

Cherry
Rhubarb
Apricot

Strawberry is OK but only the heavy fruit stuff, not the seedless.

Jam is not to be trusted. It gets in your hair, it makes everything sticky and it's awful stuff.

Pull your hair back. Done. Unless you're my DC3 and rub toast on your head for fun. 28 years old he was.

And at being called a toddler for preferring no seeds in my raspberry jam. I ain't the one getting it all over myself, for a start.

Definitely damson - home made or shop bought, I don't care

Strawberry is OK but only the heavy fruit stuff, not the seedless.

For scones, proper lumps are better. In sandwiches (bread or cake) smooth is more convenient.

Last spring we stayed at a fantastic AirBnB on a fruit farm in the Highlands. There was bread in the bread bin when we arrived, milk in the fridge, fresh scones on the table and a jar of fresh strawberry jam. The first berries of the season. Fifty feet from the tunnels.

Oh my.

Very bitter marmalade.

And at being called a toddler for preferring no seeds in my raspberry jam. I ain't the one getting it all over myself, for a start.

Oops, sorry, MrsHathaway, didn't realise it was you who didn't like the pips and I called you a toddler on your own thread .
It's not me who gets jam in my hair though - I was quoting someone else! As I said, I don't think that poster is talking about just eating jam on toast...

(You're still wrong about the pips though....)

Strawberry and rhubarb (mixed,not 2 flavours) is the best. Is strawberry flavoured but less sickly sweet

Strawberry

Ha ha it's ok

Jam is definitely not an upstairs food.

We're agreed on that then, MrsH!

Mulberry
Morello cherry with actual cherries in it.
Fig

Strawberry jam is nice, but only if it's got big lumps of strawberry in it.

Damson
Greengage
Cherry

Properly bitter thick cut seville marmalade

I'm having toast tomorrow after this.

Strawberry or GTFO.

Apricot or raspberry.