Comic world: Jam Jelly Marmalade Preserves

Monday 16 July 2012

Jam Jelly Marmalade Preserves

JAM is perhaps the most well known fruit-based preserve. Jam appears very rustic: a squishy, somewhat homogenous spread where the original fruit is included and remains at least partially intact, even if it does look a bit different from the original fresh fruit. It is frequently possible to identify the original fruit just by looking at a jam. At its best, jam tastes much like the original fresh fruit. JELLY is a cooked fruit juice that has set, with no actual pieces of fruit in it. At its best, it should be clear and free of any residual fruit particles, appearing almost translucent. The set should be firm but not gummy. It is difficult to tell merely by looking at a jelly what its constitutive fruit is. Unlike a jam, which capitalizes on the fresh flavor of the original fruit, a jelly's flavor is that of the fruit after several hours of cooking.