Jams

A gift box with the personal touch... Ideal for those who are otherwise hard to buy for. Exceptional Hostess/Host gift too! Choose any TWO items from this array of small batch artisan treats:

Blood Orange Marmalade
Calamondin Marmalade
Five Lime Marmalade
Lisbon Lemon Marmalade
Rangpur Lime Marmalade
Seville Orange Marmalade
Blackberry Orange Jam
Earliglow Strawberry Jam - SOLD OUT
Peach Jam
Wild Blueberry Lemon Jam
Raspberry Champagne Jelly
Red Currant Jelly - SOLD OUT

Indicate your choices in the NOTES section on the cart page. They will be shipped in a beautiful gazebo box with lush green tissue and grosgrain ribbon (pictured).

I've loved blueberries from the times we picked them wild, years ago, in the bogs of Northern Wisconsin. Here I use half wild Michigan blueberries and half cultivated. The flavor of blueberries, while complex, is not strong, and gets lost easily in jam. My goal was to heighten the acid level with fruits that combine to mirror its flavor--first Meyer lemon juice and zest, then pineapple juice, a bit of my own Raspberry Champagne Jelly, my Thai Ginger Syrup (galangal root) and a splash of fine cognac. The result is a jam whose supporting cast helps to intensify and celebrate the superb flavor profile of a blueberry.

Ingredients: blueberries, sugar, pineapple juice, Meyer lemon juice and zest, raspberries, galangal root syrup, cognac, pure citrus pectin.
8 oz.

Cooking this takes me back to picking wild raspberries at our family farm with my grandmother and helping to make the jam we would eat all winter. To prepare my raspberries I spend hours pressing them through a fine mesh screen by hand, leaving only dry seeds behind. This results in a velvety texture, more a seedless jam than a jelly. I use more fruit than sugar and infuse this with my favorite champagne-scented geranium, rose geranium - a trick learned from writer MFK Fisher - and a bit of fresh lime juice. Vibrant, bright, perfumed, one of my personal favorites.

Ingredients: raspberries, cane sugar, pure citrus pectin, lime juice.
8 oz.

Raspberry Champagne Jelly: See it being made!

Raspberry Champagne Corn Muffin