Jam or Marmalade?

Oooh! Just found boysenberry jam on E-Bay. Made in Exmoor! How I don't know, maybe they imported some boysenberries from the USA and grew the fruit here. That is amazing. It ain't cheap though........

I love marmalade and butter on toast and also Marmalade and peanut butter! Mmm....
I'm not quite as keen on jam for some reason, except boysenberry jam which you can only get in America (typical).
I also love lemon curd (or lemon cheese which is a bit thicker).

Roses lemon and lime marmalade was sent to earth by angels

Just reread my post! Arancia not Arabia!!

I think that's the story I got my explanation from, varian.

As a schoolgirl in Scotland I was told that Mary Queen of Scots got seasick on a voyage from France and when her maid told the cook "Marie est malade" he made a concoction from sugar and oranges which cured her. It's probably apocryphal but marmalade is very popular in Scotland.

As a sideline - there's a very strange jam/confiture made in NW France with milk and sugar, caramel flavoured. I never tasted it but it was quite popular where we lived.
www.meilleurduchef.com/en/recipe/confiture-de-lait.html

Haha Nortsat46..my 4 children call me Paddington..re my marmalade butties(sandwiches)

Try making a bread and butter pudding with marmalade spread on the bread slices, and cream added on top.

I can’t live without marmalade, any kind will do!
Roses Lime Marmalade is still sold and is very nice indeed.
Tiptree make some good ones, including no peel and orange and tangerine.Yum.

Apricot here please

Steamed pudding with marmalade instead of jam. Marmalade tarts not jam.
Seems I'm definitely a citrus person.

Jam here is called marmellata. Maybe Latin? Marmalade is marmellata d' Arabia.

farview you’ll be expecting Paddington for tea then ...

I love marmalade butties..thick butter and good marmalade on wholemeal bread..gorgeous! Dont like jam apart from apricot jam.

CanadianGran I never thought of making pineapple jam but it sounds amazing (off to google...)

So I was completely wrong then MawB? ?

In my defence, quince preserve gets called Jam these days AND it often has lemon juice in it!

Aw well I thought my theory sounded good..

Marmalade definitely but only on toast unless it is in a lovely marmalade cake.
Don't fancy a marmalade sandwich ...that's just for bears.

Cherrytree … similar story but shipwreck on Devon/Cornish coast, oranges quickly spirited away and turned into preserve before the government men found it!

As somebody has already said upthread

Fennel some people thing the origin is something to do with Mary Queen of Scots’ and the phrase “Marie est malade” but actually it comes from the Portuguese word for quince

The word marmalade meant quince jam and comes into English via French and Portuguese, deriving from 'marmelo' meaning quince. Further back, the origin is Latin and Greek, from terms meaning honey-apple, which was the fruit resulting from the grafting of an apple onto a quince

So apricot is jam.

Jam = fruits that you have to add citrus to, like when you add lemon juice to make strawberry jam.

Marmalade doesnt need anything else added because the fruit is already citrus.

E.g. lemon and lime makes marmalade not jam.

Raspberries, currents etc need citrus. Apricots are citrusey but need additional juice (usually lemon)

40ib grannysyb!! Why so much????

Thinking about it, using just under a pound a week (which is possible for two people or in our house one greedy husband!).
You have just enough to set you up for the year, so maybe you just love marmalade!

I think marmalade refers to any preserve with citrus, but I think they are basically the same.

When we were in Mexico, there was pineapple jam available and it was DELICIOUS! I looked for some at the local grocery store to bring home, but it was not quite as good. I have since seen recipes on line and am tempted to make some when pineapples are on sale.

Grannysyb, I can't imagine making that amount of marmalade. Good for you.