What is the difference between jelly and jam and perserves?!


Question:

What is the difference between jelly and jam and perserves?


Answers:
The jelly has all the seeds removed and the jam is the fruit smashed up and has the seeds. The perserves are the full fruit in a very thick syrup, I think. I usually make jelly and jam out of the same batch of berries by taking the berries and cooking them and draining the juice off of the berries, or about half of it, and use it and sugar for the jelly, then I take the rest and smash it up and cook it with sugar for the jam. I use the full fruit and sugar, plus a bit of syrup for my perserves. Ah, life is good when the cupboards are full of good fruit jellies and jams and perserves.

Source(s):
past down from generations of good cooks.

Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes.

* In jelly, the fruit comes in the form of fruit juice.
* In jam, the fruit comes in the form of fruit pulp or crushed fruit (and is less stiff than jelly as a result).
* In preserves, the fruit comes in the form of chunks in a syrup or a jam.

Preserves basiclly means organic food. It has no extra ingredients like those long words that are almost impossible to answer. As for the 'jelly' and 'jam' thing your on your own there, I have no idea what the difference is. I'm sorry to say that's coming from a girl who aspires to be a chef. But maybe someone else can help you!!!




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