I had someone the other day ask why I can all the jam/ jelly and syrups that I can when it is just Andy and I. So I thought I would do a quick post on all the ways to use those things.
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Flavor your hot breakfast cereals (Oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, Grits).
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Add to your homemade yogurt ( or store bought).
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Make flavored waters, plain or sparkling.
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Make flavored teas, Hot or cold
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Use on pancakes or french toast.
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Add to your kombucha to flavor it.
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Top cakes with it.
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Flavor your coffee
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Bake a little jam into your muffins.
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Add to applesauce to make flavored applesauce.
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Make fruit bars Go here for the recipe
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Top ice cream.
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Add to cream cheese for a spread on crackers, toast, bagels.
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Add to smoothies.
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Spread on coffee cake.
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Add to lemonade for flavored lemonade.
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Stir into a fruit salad for a glaze.
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Use to fill a jelly roll.
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Layer in a trifle with fresh fruit, pudding, and whipped cream.
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Thin jam with a little water and warm to make a syrup, or use syrup and poke holes in a still warm cake, pour syrup over the top to infuse the cake with flavor.
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Make a fresh fruit pizza on a sugar cookie crust, use a bit of jam for the sauce, add fruit and sprinkle with bits of cream cheese, bake.
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Fill crepes.
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No fresh strawberries for shortcake, use jam.
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Add to cream cheese for a frosting.
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Glaze for roasted meat.
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Use as a dipping sauce.
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Thumbprint cookies.
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Make sandwich cookies.
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Cupcake filling.
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Homemade pop tarts.
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Pour over baked apples
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Make flavored butter.
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Stuff a chicken breast or pork loin.
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Stir into BBQ sauce.
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Bake the jam right into your biscuits.
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Use in berry mojitos.
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Fold into fruit fluffs.
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Stir a bit into whipped topping to flavor it.
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And of course PB&J
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Can’t forget about putting it on toast.