Is the term 'jam' used/understood in the US?!
Is the term 'jam' used/understood in the US?
As in preserved fruit rather than a music/traffic jam
Answers: Yes, jelly, jam and preserves are all used in the US. Jam, though, tends to be a term used more often by home canners, where jelly is more often what you get from a commercial company. That's not to say that you don't get jam at a grocery store, my local chain has a very good grape jam under their brand, and it spreads so much better than grape jelly. If they don't they are really ignorant! Yes :) Yes, but I think we tend to use "Jelly". If you say you had jam on bread, nobody would think you meant music or traffic. We're not stupid. It's probably more common to use "jam" than "preserves" in the U.S. Well, you can get jelly, jam, and preserves at just about any supermarket in the U.S., but I couldn't tell you the difference between the three. They're all pretty much the same to me. Just goes to show you how much I know about cuisine... yes it is Yes, and there are standards concerning what is jam, what is jelly and what is preserves. I think it depends upon the amount of solids in the product. There are many accepted definitions of Jam. Used as a noun,it can mean a fruit preserve. As a verb,it can mean many other things.These definitions are not limited to the US. Basic differences in Jam, Jelly, & Preserves in the US.
Preserves - are small, whole, or uniform pieces of fresh fruit in a clear or jelled syrup.
Jelly - made by cooking fruit juice and water. easy to spread. commonly used to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Jam - made by cooking crushed fruit and water. texture has more lumpiness than jelly do to the inclusion of actual pieces of fruit.
OTHER:
Conserves: like jam but with a combination of fruit.
Marmalades: fruit and/or peeling in a soft semi-transparent jelly. Yup! Jam is a type of sweet preserved fruit. It contains the juice and smallish chunks of fruit.
As opposed to:
Jelly - fruit juice only
Preserves - large chunks of fruit
Butters - fruit pulp (sweetened and reduced)
Common usages in the US. Jam is made with fruit pieces and the jelly is the juice of the fruit. Yes
but we do have Major problems with the strange accent coming from all of the countries across either pond.
Bless your mum ( as in silence) ? As fruit spread containing seeds , not jelly which has the
seeds removed... yes. Yes but jelly is prefered. Yes.
It is the British who do not understand the difference between what "jam" is, and what constitutes "jelly". The reason for this is that they have long called "Jell-O" (a congealed fruit-flavoured gelatin dessert invented in the US in 1845) "jelly" because of a WWII-era misunderstanding on their part. Jam is jelly with fruit pieces in it. Jelly is jam with the fruit pieces strained out. It all depends on the situation and the conversation.
I am in a traffic jam!
I have said something to someone and now I am in a jam!
I am having a toast with jam !