 Unset jam is pretty much the
same thing as fruit syrup, which has had many sources and uses, and
these suggestions for uses of unset jam can be applied to any fruit
decoction that has been rendered down to a syrup.
•
Drizzle some over fruit salad.
 • Toss a
few
spoonfuls over steamed sweet potatoes or yams to make
glazed/candied sweet potatoes or carrots.
• Make
Peach Melba:
Put a scoop of ice cream in a dish, add a canned
peach or pear half (or slices) and drizzle some jam syrup on top.
• Use
as a syrup for pancakes or french toast.
•
Use it as a topping for ice
cream or puddings.
•
Drizzle it over cream puffs or
squares of vanilla cake.
•
Drizzle it over cooked oatmeal
or other hot cereal.
•
Add it as a flavouring to
milkshakes.
•
Add to plain milk to make
flavoured milk.
•
Mix it with carbonated water
to make flavoured soda.
•
Poach pears or peaches and drizzle syrup on top for dessert.
•
Drizzle it over cheesecake.
•
Mix it with sliced fruit or
berries and use as a topping for sheet
cakes.
• Mix it
with sliced
fruit, top with a streusel topping, bake and you
have fruit crisp.
• Mix
with a little
cornstarch or arrowroot, cook till thickened to make
a thicker syrup to use as well.
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Things To Do With Unset Jam
:
Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar,
Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation by The Gardeners and
Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante.
by Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann
