"Farm Frank" hot dog with hot pepper jelly, green tomato relish, radish and carrot pickles, & smoked paprika aioli
We’ve been a little bit MIA on the old jam blog here, it’s been a busy summer, what with jamming, farming and shakin’ our jammer booties at different events around town. But Autumn is upon us, [...]
In our attempts to encourage everyone to live in our jamarchy — a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom from food tyranny –we’re adding to the roster of things to do with jam. Pastry + jam = pure goodness.
JAM CROSTATA
SERVINGS: MAKES ONE 9-INCH TART
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon [...]
blood oranges, before the slaughter
Blood oranges don’t need a sell, they’re perfect: tart, sweet, and bitter. The taste makes you feel enlivened and awake as the best citrus does. I’ve kept it simple and haven’t added any complex flavors. Pure. Simple. Good.
I posted my recipe last year, but decided to skip the addition of [...]
pandan extract about to enter the marmalade
pandan leaves in the wild
Today we made Lime & Pandan Marmalade with pandan leaf extract. We’re extremely lucky to work alongside pastry chef Carla while cooking our jam at Chestnut (her and her husband also run the delightful Mama’s Food Shop on the [...]
Our strawberry jam tastes like pure strawberries because we use fresh picked berries and instead of commercial pectin, we use “Pomona’s Universal Pectin“. Pomona’s is an all natural pectin that doesn’t require sugar to jell, so jams and jellies can be made with less, little, or no sugar (stevia, honey, etc can be used as [...]