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Among all Gourmet products, the jams are perhaps the ones that give the most game. Just look at the space that preserves, jams, jellies and chutneys occupy in any delicatessen to realize this. It is not surprising. When the ingredients of a recipe are reduced to two, fruit and sugar, it is easy, almost mandatory, to innovate. And sometimes the results are truly amazing.
En Summum We recommend ten essential brands to give a sweet and unexpected twist to your breakfasts and snacks.
Four flavors for a refined breakfast
Belberry is a Belgian company specialized in gourmet jams and preserves with more than 50 years of experience. Its classic tastes include such attractive combinations as mango and passion fruit, raspberry and rhubarb, figs and black pepper or kiwi, apricot and pineapple.
La luxury collection It is made up of four very elegant flavors based on fruit and liqueurs: from strawberry and champagne jam to apricot and Amaretto, to apple from the Braeburn and Calvados variety and from Seville orange and whiskey.
The prices of a 200 gr jar usually exceed 4 euros. For a real diamond breakfast.
Fruit and sugar
Andalusian and with a single obsession: that of being natural jams, without acidulants, aromas, not even pectin (beyond what the fruit naturally contains) and of course without any chemical additives.
On this solid foundation, The donuts produces sixteen varieties of jams and two chutneys that are intended to reflect what the label says, that is, fresh fruit, sugar, spices and liqueurs. N
orange, strawberry, but also kiwi with Cava, pineapple with coconut liqueur, pear with Amaretto, peach with lavender, tomato and red pepper. Among the sweet and sour flavors, the tomato and mango chutney. Fruit and sugar, nothing more.
Unique and divine
Tiptree is a small town in the county of Essex, in England, where the emblazoned family Wilkin has been making TOP jams since 1885.
The strawberry one or the Lemon Curd (cream of lemon juice, sugar and butter, a real vice) are bites from another planet. Prices for a jar of 340 gr. they do not fall below 5 euros. Unless we are not talking about Little Scarlet, a jam made with the homonymous variety of strawberry, whose price is close to 10 euros.
It is a small strawberry, similar to a forest strawberry, that grows spontaneously in America and is cultivated and harvested in England by the hand of the family Wilkin, who was in charge of bringing her to the island. They are almost certain that they are the only ones to grow this strawberry for commercial purposes. Something like the queen of gourmet jams.
Surprising breakfasts so you don’t have to choose
At least on this side of the world, people are divided between those who eat toast with butter and jam for breakfast, and those who prefer to spread it with olive oil.
Bailén Gold, a young and renowned company in the sector, recomposes this morning fracture with two jellies made with 50% extra virgin olive oil – you can choose between the Picual and Arbequina varieties – and 25% sugar.
A original alternative to season a slice of toast, cakes, biscuits, but also meat and fish.
With a touch of humor and mystery: Bubub
If you are one of those who frequently visit delicatessens, you will have noticed at least once in some fancy jars, surrounded by beautiful illustrated labels and names that use humor and mystery as weapons of seduction. Are the jams Bubub, made in an artisanal way with fruit, spices and liqueurs.
Jams with a unique and daring touch, such as Grapefruit, Ginger and Muscat, the Carnival Queen (with banana, mango, orange juice, rum, honey and vinegar), Mandarin, Pumpkin and Grand Marnier and Orange, Caribbean rum and cinnamon stick. A jar of 240 can cost 7 euros.
For those who want to go one step further, Bubub It also makes gelées to accompany cheese or foie, such as Gin Tonic (with Gin, lemon, tonic, sugar, cardamom, pink pepper, juniper berries), Cava and Oro or Garnacha wine. Only for “Bad guys.”
Bio, slow, authentic
Locura di Fragole, Raspberry Kiss, Mirtillo Extravaganza, Amore Mora, Mystic Cotó, Lady Bitter Orange. The jams of LoRUSSo They are like this: original and authentic even in name.
They are made by a small factory in Chercos, in Almería, using organic fruit from local farmers and clean energy. For each variety, at most are used 50-60 Kg of fruit, something that turns these jams into a limited edition delicatessen. A glass jar costs around 7 euros. They are not very easy to find, a detail that makes them even more desirable.
In Madrid he sells them Pure Brut, a gastro-space that is worth knowing, more like a jewelry store than a gourmet products store.
The scent of Sicily in a jar
scyavuru in Sicilian it means smell, fragrance. One of the most appropriate names for a family business committed to bringing Sicilian fruit, vegetable and dried fruit perfumes to the final consumer. The blood orange jams (with red pulp and slightly bitter taste) and late mandarin or the extra jams of black fig, black mulberry, strawberries from Ribera – where the company is located – or prickly pears are some perfect examples of this. .
The price is around 4 and for now it is easy to find them in department stores like La Rinascente or stores like Eataly. In other words, you have to go to Italy and even better to Sicily to try them. More luxury impossible.
Cocoa and coffee (on the toast)
Light jams, to pair with cheese, jellies, in mini format, Chutneys, sauces, candied figs. The range offered by the Girona company Can bech it is vast.
There is also a line of products based on fruit and pure cocoa, with surprising edible combinations such as pear and ginger with cocoa or mango with cocoa. Among the classics, the Colombian coffee jam, made with apple, sugar, lemon juice and coffee infusion. To spread on toast or, why not, cakes and biscuits. Experimenting is a (sweet) obligation.
Like mom’s
Luxury sometimes coincides with something small, well done and capable of giving off a lot of love. Something like that could be said of a diamond. Or some jams that have just appeared on the market with such suggestive flavors such as pineapple and saffron, cherries with vermouth, kiwi with Cointreau, peach with tea or carrot.
Miren’s mother is a personal project of Miren Pascual, an industrial designer who changed Navarra for Barcelona. Miren works in a small kitchen design studio and is fond of gastronomy. And jams for as long as he can remember.
“I wanted to do something myself with my hands, without having the pressure of having to make a living, just with the intention of learning,” she explains about the project. “I always brought my mother’s jam from town and many friends told me that it was very good and special. So I decided to ask my mother for some recipes and start making them myself. The decision of the name seemed to me a nice tribute to her ”. It’s that simple and that big.
Jams –which are priced at 5 euros for a 180 gr jar– can be purchased in almost all of Spain in specialized stores. They are also sold through the web.
With a pinch of saffron
La Melguiza is a young company specialized in the elaboration of delicatessen and cosmetic products with 100% Spanish saffron. Chocolate, salt, oil, patés, sausages, honey. The only limit is fantasy.
The jams that have Spanish red gold among their ingredients range from pomegranate to tangerine with chocolate, through quince and pineapple. They can be purchased for just over 6 euros on its website or in its exclusive physical store located near Madrid’s Plaza Mayor.