Comments on: Confiture Ã©pÃ©pinÃ©e de Goyaves / Guava Jam

By: MasPinaSarap

MasPinaSarap — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:24:24 +0000

Honestly, I have no idea. It’s expensive at the Fauchon in NY, and I’m curious about the flavor myself.

By: connie

connie — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:59:04 +0000

The only brand that I found that makes guava jelly here in the US or at least groceries in my area carries is Palmalito, they are a company based in Florida. The taste is nothing but appalling, the jelly is so heavy on corn syrup that is tastes like honey dilluted in brown sugar, worst it crystallizes at the top, another sign of too much sugar instead of a lot more guava. Truly yucky! Their mango jam is equally horrid!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:42:39 +0000

MasPinaSarap, no, I have not… is is just sugar flavored with champagne?

By: MasPinaSarap

MasPinaSarap — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:25:01 +0000

A bit off topic, but have you tried Champagne jelly?

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:41:54 +0000

MasPinaSarap, I do love apple butter which is a staple in apple orchard country in the U.S.; I have had some of the other jams as well but broadly speaking the French and English do seem to extract flavor from fruit so well…

By: MasPinaSarap

MasPinaSarap — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:50:23 +0000

If you get a chance to go to the middle parts of the U.S.(or have you?), or the “country”, and/or including mennonite communities, they pride themselves on homemade preserves, and you can’t hardly find them but at a farmer’s market or country store. Certainly no guava jam, but american summer fruits like strawberries, raspberries, peaches, and apricots.

By: Apicio

Apicio — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:58:14 +0000

Itâ€™s curious that the French specify that the guava seeds have been taken away. It is not as if they are tiny enough to be included and that you can ignore them the way you do with strawberry or fig preserve. Anyway, jam and jellies and cheese remind me of Jacobâ€™s cream crackers of old. Their familiar tin box are still available but they now contain a completely different product. Their ought to be a law.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:38:46 +0000

sylvia, yes, when the new york posts draw to an end, I will answer the poll question… :)

By: sylvia

sylvia — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:26:52 +0000

Btw Marketman, when are you going to tell us the correct answer to your poll?

By: sylvia

sylvia — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:25:41 +0000

MM, I am delirious just reading your gauava jam post. I have got to try this.