Saturday, April 19, 2008

Jelly, Jam or Preserves?

In case you were wondering what the difference is between jelly, jam and preserves:

Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes.

In jelly, the fruit comes in the form of fruit juice.

In jam, the fruit comes in the form of fruit pulp or crushed fruit (and is less stiff than jelly as a result).

In preserves, the fruit comes in the form of chunks in a syrup or a jam.

7 comments:

Jinjer said...

I am all about the preserves. Not a fan of jam and despise jelly!

KFuj said...

I grew up eating homemade jam, so when I got married and Scott wanted preserves I went to the store and bought him jam.. clearing not the same thing, but it was all I knew!

Andria said...

Now, I can have an intelligent conversation with my peers!

Ruth Anne said...

Preserves can also be defined as NASTY. I hate the chunks. If I wanted chunky crap, I would just eat the fruit.

That being said, I love strawberry jam from Smuckers. Yes, you can call me picky.

Anonymous said...

I am with Ruth Anne on this one!!

Queen B said...

Sydney is going to know so much uselss trivia :) Thanks for the info!

alisa said...

none of the above. but when i want a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, it has to be raspberry jam - preferably seedless. :)

:)