jam student pours the elixer!
Peak season and you haven’t yet preserved summer’s bounty? On Monday, August 23rd, we will be getting our jam on at Beer Table. I’ll demonstrate simple ways to make preserves and offer other ideas for stocking up your larder (plum pickles? hot pepper jelly?). Each attendee will take a jar [...]
whoa, look at those green hotties!
We’re hoping the new iPhone 4G comes with a scent feature. This post would be much sweeter if you could share in the divine scent that wafts through the kitchen as the limes are cooked into marmalade. Jose, who works alongside us in the kitchen at [...]
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 [...]
We were playing with pears in the kitchen very early this morning, and the jam looked so beautiful as it glowed in the autumn light pouring in through the back door of Chestnut.
We jammed it with fresh ginger, and also cooked up a batch of [...]
We get this a lot. People scoff and think it’s weird. Most small batch & artisanal jam is made on farms, in France or California, in rural areas with easy access to fresh fruit, or all the above. But NYC is the perfect locale for jam production, just like it’s the perfect place to start [...]