Jams & Preserves

🇨🇦Canadian Prairies, Canada

Saskatoon Berry Jam

Confiture de Saskatoon

Jam made from Saskatoon berries with almond-like flavor, Prairie specialty and popular Canadian souvenir.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Seville Orange Marmalade

A bitter orange preserve set with shredded peel suspended through it, made in a short winter season from bitter Seville fruit.

🇦🇲Armenia

Sour Lavash

Թթու լավաշ

Fruit leather from sour plums or cornelian cherries, dried in sheets and torn into stews and soups as a souring agent.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Spoon Sweet

Γλυκό του κουταλιού

Greek preserved fruits (cherry, fig, quince, or citrus) in syrup, served by the spoonful with coffee. A hospitality tradition, sweet and fruity, a national treat, a welcome to guests.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Squash Jam

Miel de chiverre

Easter squash jam made from chiverre squash, panela, cinnamon, and cloves, takes days to make, a Holy Week tradition, sweet and spiced.

🇯🇵Japan

Takuan

沢庵

Takuan, whole daikon dried and pickled in rice bran to a bright yellow, is the named Japanese pickle.

🇰🇮Kiribati

Te Roro

Te roro is a Kiribati dessert of preserved pandanus fruit paste simmered with fresh coconut cream and sugar until thick, then cooled.

🇫🇰Falkland Islands

Teaberry Jam

Teaberry jam turns seasonal native berries into a floral preserve for scones and desserts.

🇻🇳Northwest Vietnam, Vietnam

Thịt trâu gác bếp

Thịt trâu gác bếp is buffalo meat cured with salt and spices, smoked for weeks above the kitchen fire, then torn into chewy, smoky strips in Vietnam's northwest.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Traditional Bramley Apple Pie Filling

Traditional Bramley Apple Pie Filling is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.

🇷🇸Serbia

Trešnje Slatko

Слатко од трешања

Trešnje slatko is sour-cherry spoon-sweet, traditionally offered to visitors with water.

🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan

Tsukudani

佃煮

Tsukudani, kombu, small fish or shellfish simmered down in soy and mirin until they keep for months, is a named Japanese preserve bought by the tub and named for the Tokyo island where it began.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Turshak

Туршак

Sour dried plums and apricots pressed into cakes or sold loose, eaten as a snack and used to sour stews.

🇳🇴Norway

Tyttebær (Lingonberry)

Tyttebær

A Norwegian wild berry, red and tart, made into jam and served with meat dishes

🇷🇺Russia

Varenye

Варенье

Varenye is a whole-fruit preserve with berries or fruit in sugar syrup, no gelling agent, served with tea not spread on toast, whole fruits intact with transparent syrup and fruit-to-sugar ratio.

🇷🇴Romania

Whole Fruit Preserve

Dulceață

Whole fruit — sour cherries, quince, walnut, rose petals — cooked in sugar syrup so the pieces stay intact, offered to guests by the spoonful.

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Wild Fig Preserve

Слатко од диви смокви

Small wild figs preserved whole in thick syrup with lemon, served a spoonful at a time with water and coffee.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Ô mai (Sugared or Salted Fruit)

Ô mai

O mai, salted-sweet preserved apricots and plums sold from specialist Hang Duong Street shops, is a named Hanoi product bought as itself.