Traditional foods like jam and marmalade..do you still buy them

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or eat them?

I don't eat jam, but dd has it on toast and the od sandwich. We buy ours (Loganberry and Plum) from our farmers market.
I do however adore Coopers coarse cut orange marmalade, although only eat it on the odd half slice left over after a cooked breakfast (a rare thing in itself these days)

REd onion marmalade yes we buy that and have it with cold meats and homemade sausages!

dh gets through pots of Coopers fine cut Oxford

I have a passion for tiptrees little scarlet on thick bread with butter

the girls like seedless raspberry

I make my own red onion marmalade and it's delish, you do need to leave it for a couple of months though to 'ripen'.

Which reminds me I need to get peeling those onions again soon

my dh objects to lemon curd...but it wouldn't stop me buying it...but it is one more thing to tempt me so i don't....

No I don't buy jam or marmalade ... unless I run out.

Am I the only person here who makes her own jam and marmalade and have done since I was a teenager? Lemon curd is a doddle to make too.

I make my own jam, now where is the SMUG icon :o

So currently I have Plum and apple, blackberry preserve and blackberry and apple. I also make mincemeat and chutneys too :)

I find it soothing, strangely satifying. This year I went OTT and made about 100 jars of various flavours as gifts.

crunchie - a soul mate (see my post immediately before yours).

You need to find a local farmer's market to sell it - we all love homemade jams, make you a fortune!

My dad used to make lovely lemon curd, can anyone point me towards a fairly simple recipe? This thread has really given me the urge for some (homemade lemon curd and peanut butter sandwiches, yum!)

loads. lemon marmalade, raspberry jam (usually bon maman) and apricot sometimes. doesn't everyone?

I would make it, but I have very little kitchen storage available, the farmers market I go to has a little family who makes it with fruit from their own orchards... So well... hardly worth me getting a pinny on is it now?

my dad and my MIL both make jam so we're fairly well supplied thanks to them
haven't bought marmalade for ages come to think of it, love it though.

How about \link{http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/index.cfm?uktv=recipes.recipe&iID=554788\this one}

I've just been looking at it too!

Lemon curd......humm was just thinking about the t'other day. Yes buy jam every week, gave poorly daugher jam on bread for lunch......

Lemon curd......humm was just thinking about the t'other day. Yes buy jam every week, gave poorly daugher jam on bread for lunch......

Ok, looks good! I'll give that one a go, thanks Lucycat

I used to make lemon curd but I can't remember for the life of me how.... I do recall it being very easy though.

I make blackcurrant and gooseberry jam (because they grow in our garden) and give most of it away.

It is strangely satisfying.

We eat/buy Bonne Maman jam (strawberry and blackcurrant) and fine shred (?) marmalade.

My grandmother used to make her own jam; horrible combinations like marrow and ginger.

It's tempting to try and make some lemon curd if it is so easy. Could give it to my Mum and MIL on Mother's Day too. Also puzzled at the DH/lemon curd issue.

Dh reckons ones of the reasons he married me was that I fed him lemon curd( and the fact I used to forget to wear pants :o)