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July 2006
Updated August 2009

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Spread Sheet: Types Of Jelly, Jam & Preserves

Page 2: Terms G ~ Z

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• Page 1: Terms A to F

Gelée: The French word for jelly.

Jam: Jam is made from crushed or chopped fruit cooked with sugar, and often pectin and lemon juice. Jam can be a purée of fruit or have a soft pulp, but it does not contain chunks of fruit. (See photo at top of page.)

Jelly: Jelly is simply sweetened and jelled fruit juice, a clear, bright product. It is generally made by cooking fruit juice and sugar with pectin as a jelling agent and lemon juice as an acid, to maintain a consistent texture. Jelly is firm and will hold its shape (it “shakes”). Generally, jelly contains no pieces of fruit, although specialty jellies, like pepper jelly, may include pieces of jalapeño or other chile pepper. A good wine jelly is made with a concentration of real wine; the better the wine and the more wine in the jelly, the better the wine jelly. A top wine jelly will taste like a glass of wine in jelly form. Read our review of Colorado Mountain wine jelly (photo at right).

Wine jelly from Colorado Mountain Jams & Jellies is so versatile, it goes from toast to marinade to cheese condiment to ice cream topping. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

Marmalade: Marmalade is a soft jelly, often citrus-based, that includes the flesh and often the peel of the fruit suspended throughout the jelly base. The sweetness of the jelly is offset by the bitterness of the peel offsets. Some products that are called marmalade—onion and tomato marmalades, for example—are actually misnamed jams and preserves.

Grapefruit marmalade from Robert Lambert, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week.

Pepper Jelly. See jelly.

Preserve or Preserves: A preserve differs from jam in that large or whole pieces of fruit are cooked (with sugar) to the point where the fruit is suspended in a syrup base. The texture of preserves is not smooth like jelly or jam.

Wine Jelly: See jelly.

Recipes With Jams & Jellies

Peanut Butter & Co. Cookbook, by Lee Zalben. More than 80 gooey recipes for everything from decadent desserts (Four-Layer Peanut Butter–Honey Cake) to delicious, nutritious snacks (Baked Apples with Peanut Butter) and sensational entrees (Peanut Butter Pad Thai). Click here for more information or to purchase.	The Ultimate Peanut Butter Book: Savory and Sweet, Breakfast to Dessert, Hundreds of Ways to Use America's Favorite Spread, by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. From comforting Peanut Butter Sticky Buns to Peanut Butter Cheesecake and an outrageous Elvis Spread, this is way beyond PB&J. Click here for more information or to purchase.	The Big Book of Breakfast, by Maryana Vollstedt. Choose from 280 recipes for every kind of breakfast food imaginable. Every dish is easy to make: frittatas and omelets, quiches and stratas, casseroles and skillet entrées, sandwiches and wraps, French toast and pancakes, waffles and cereals, meats and potatoes, breads and more. Click here for more information.

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