Best Jam in the world

[Zeno]

Not Guitar Jam. Jam, the best spread on toast in the world and great in the morning. But I also like jam and toast for a snack at night.

I have six jars of wild Huckleberry Jam from the Oregon Coast. Homemade jam by my sister, a Christmas gift, and hand picked from our favorite place near the ocean. The jars of jam are worth about $1,000 each. I plan on taking them into a no-limit game and using them for cash chips.

Anyway, also from Oregon, I have Blackberry jam, homemade but by Mom. Christmas gift. Giving homemade jam is a Tradition in my family. The blackberries are the early kind that come out in June and grow in shady places, creepy vines that crawl along the ground and along old logs etc. Small berries but the very best tasting in the entire universe. They also make the most superb pie in the cosmos. You would sell your soul to the devil for a single bite. It's that good.

The red type huckleberries also make superb pie.

All sorts of berries are all around this crazy globe.

Others favorties?

-Zeno

[Joe826]

i like the kind that's mixed with the peanut butter. that is, they are in the same jar!

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We do make good Jams

[razor]

Strawberry/Rhubarb

Blackberry jam is great, it's been ages since I've had any.

[ThaSaltCracka]

I like strawberry and raspberry jam, both made by my mom, seceret recipe too.... she puts herb in it /images/graemlins/grin.gif

seriously though, she has some sort of secret tehnique, makes the berries taste fresh.

[ilya]

Store-bought, I really like Trader Joe's Sour Cherry preserves. But of course home-made is best.

[InchoateHand]

Crabapple. Home made, where you get to see the cheese-cloth strung across the kitchen and vicious little fruits become something beautiful.

[Zeno]

Those home or family 'secret recipes' or little tricks to tease some extra flavor out of different raw materials is what makes 'homemade' really mean something.

Rasberries are great. They are fantastic on some types of breakfast cereal - organic grain type cereals especially, and Wheaties also. Really adds some zest to breakfast.

-Zeno

[ThaSaltCracka]

jam on cereal??? wow, I have never heard that. Yeah, there is some sort of technique she does before she freezes the jam, not sure what though. damn, now I am craving some strawberry jam /images/graemlins/laugh.gif.

btw, the NW rules for berries.

[Zeno]

That's just whole rasberries, Salt. Wake up. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Zeno

And Yes, the NW rules the berry world.

[Ray Zee]

huckleberry is the best and most expensive if you buy it. the best comes from the high mountains of montana and wyoming. lower elevation ones are less tart and more like blueberries which they are in the same family.
i like chokecherry jam. a bit runny but great. i got so many of the bushes on my place i even get some before the bear that lives there eats them all.
really all the berries make great jam if you do it right. except for dingle berries

[ThaSaltCracka]

LOL, I am quite tired. hmmmm.... I wonder how jam would work on cereal though.....

The jam my mom most recently made was from raspberries grown out on the Olympic pennisula, oddly enough where they live, its warm enough during the summer to grow kiwi's.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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except for dingle berries

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[Shajen]

blackberry is the best imo.

Ever had jalapeno jelly? That's teh nutz.

[Benal]

Greaves Crabapple Jelly - Made in Niagara On The Lake, Ontario.

[guller]

Guava jam with butter on toast.

[Graham]

I don't know what huckleberries are but they sound similar to blackcurrants - which are a mile ahead in the best jam stakes, imo. Nothing comes close.

If strawberry gets 60/100 then blackcurrant is over 95/100. I'm reserving the 100 score for something wonderful that might be brought by martians or other interstellar visitors, but for now it's blackcurrant.

[stabn]

Huckleberries:

http://www.bearinfo.org/images/huckleberry.jpg

Although i've more often used the orange ones:

http://www.oregonjam.com/images/product-photos/huckleberry.jpg

[deacsoft]

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[BadBoyBenny]

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Strawberry/Rhubarb

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Never had it. But if it's as good as the pie I gotta try it.

[Zeno]

Never had jalapeno jelly. Sounds good.

I have had prickly pear jelly (made of the juice from the prickly pear catus fruit). It was a commerical brand from Apache Junction, Arizona and a bit too sweet for my taste.

-Zeno

[Zeno]

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Guava jam with butter on toast.

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Now that I have to try!

Guava Jelly (http://www.bushabrowne.com/jam_guava.htm)

I have had fresh guava purchased from a market in a rural mexican town. I ripped the fruit open and feasted. Excellent, especially on a hot day.

-Zeno

[Zeno]

Link to another favorite jam. Sweden produces some of the best. Lingonberry Jam (http://igourmet.com/shoppe/prodview.asp?cat=&subcat=Best+Sellers&prod=023&sou rce=pepperjam&OVRAW=lingonberry&OVKEY=lingonberry& OVMTC=standard)

-Zeno

[Paluka]

I thought this thread was going to be about slam dunks and I was going to make a lame post about strawberry jam or something, but now I have to post this instead.

[EliteNinja]

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You beat me to it.
How about Toe Jam? or Pearl Jam?

Ok, I admit it, I like Marmalaide. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[lighterjobs]

http://www.smuckers.com/images/products/goober_grape.jpg

[shemp]

The jam mom used to make from whatever berry I was sent to pick. There was love in that jam (usually blackberry).