Can you tell me the difference between these preserved products?
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I can only answer for my little hole in Victoria, Australia as that's where I'm from. I'm 100% sure the answers will be different from people that live elsewhere.
Jelly for us is (I think?) what Americans would call Jello. Gelatine, sugar (and that's basically it), whack it in the fridge for a few hours and it goes awesome and wobby. Not made for toast. It's a dessert, typically.
Jam is... not citrus (that's marmalade). It's a preserve that goes amazingly on croissants with a smidge of butter. Strawberry and raspberry are the most common here.
Marmalade for us is similar to jam, but citrus only. So you won't normally find orange jam, for example; you'll find orange marmalade. Never been a fan personally, but I'm also not a huge citrus fan in general.
Spreads would be your toast toppings like peanut butter, Nutella, Vegemite (for those uninitiated, don't pile it on. You'll die of sodium o******e 😉), etc. Essentially stuff that doesn't fall under the previous two umbrellas.
Jelly for us is (I think?) what Americans would call Jello. Gelatine, sugar (and that's basically it), whack it in the fridge for a few hours and it goes awesome and wobby. Not made for toast. It's a dessert, typically.
Jam is... not citrus (that's marmalade). It's a preserve that goes amazingly on croissants with a smidge of butter. Strawberry and raspberry are the most common here.
Marmalade for us is similar to jam, but citrus only. So you won't normally find orange jam, for example; you'll find orange marmalade. Never been a fan personally, but I'm also not a huge citrus fan in general.
Spreads would be your toast toppings like peanut butter, Nutella, Vegemite (for those uninitiated, don't pile it on. You'll die of sodium o******e 😉), etc. Essentially stuff that doesn't fall under the previous two umbrellas.
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#2
UK. Jelly is either a dessert made of flavoured gelatine, or a jelled preserve of fruit and sugar, but differentiated from Jam by having the cooked fruit strained through a cloth and only using the clear liquid before adding sugar and boiling to set point, so no bits in it and should be clear. Jam is a preserve made retaining whole or pieces of fruit. Spread is anything that you can spread on toast or put in a sandwich, so Nutella, Marmite, and that beloved mixture of salad cream and chopped pickles known simply as Sandwich Spread would fall into this category. Marmalade is a citrus preserve where the peel and pips are the source of the jelling agent pectin, so tends to bitterness. It usually retains the peel (but not the pips) but even if it's clear, it would still be called marmalade not jelly.
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