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SMUCKER'S QUICK TIPS AND EASY RECIPES
USING JAM, JELLY, AND PRESERVES


"The next time you want to give a new flavor twist to a meal or snack, pick up a jar 0f preserves, jam, or jelly. Fruit spreads can d0 a lot more than dress up your breakfast toast."

BREAKFAST

- Top your favorite hot cereal with preserves. It's a great way to add the taste 0f fruit and a touch of sweetness.

- Warm preserves or jam for a tasty topping on pancakes, French toast, and waffles.

- Sweeten a grapefruit half with a couple teaspoons 0f your favorite flavor jelly. Serve as is, or broil.

- Quick coffeecake:
Spread plain store-bought coffeecake with preserves. Slide under broiler until topping bubbles.

LUNCH

- A lowfat dressing for fruit salads:
Blend together 2 parts lowfat sour cream and 1 part preserves or jelly.

- Top a serving 0f cottage cheese with couple spoonfuls 0f preserves or jam.

DINNER

- Perk up vegetables such as cooked carrots or sweet potatoes by adding 1/4 cup of Apricot, Peach, or Pineapple Preserves before serving.

- Baste ham steaks, slices of Canadian bacon, or glaze a baked ham with Strawberry, Apricot, or Cherry Preserves.

- Prepare a quick fruit relish:
Stir 1 cup Grape Jelly into 1/2 cup each Sweet Orange Marmalade and chopped walnuts. Serve with turkey or chicken.

- Fill butternut or acorn squash with Apricot or Pineapple Preserves before cooking.

- Use your favorite preserves, jams, and jellies as glazes on beef, pork, and poultry:

Pork:
Pineapple, Apricot, Cherry, Peach, or Sweet Orange Marmalade.

Poultry:
Cherry, Red Raspberry, Peach, Apricot, or Pineapple Preserves.

Beef:
Currant or Quince Jelly.

- Piquant sauce for fish:
Mix Quince Jelly with hot prepared mustard.

- Sweet and Sour sauce:
Combine 1/2 cup jelly, 2 Tbsp. soy sauce, 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce, and 1/2 cup wine vinegar. Simmer 5 minutes, stirring constantly.

- Barbecue sauce:
Mix 1/4 cup Sweet Orange Marmalade, Apricot, Peach, Plum, or Pineapple Preserves with 1/2 cup chili sauce, and 2 Tbsp. steak sauce.

DESSERT

- Heat your favorite preserves or jam and serve as a topping for ice cream, cake, or crepes.

- Use preserves to top plain cheesecake.

- For a quick and easy dessert:
Slice a store-bought poundcake or spongecake into horizontal layers. Spread layers with preserves or jam. Put cake back together again. Slice and serve.

- Frosted grapes are a "showy," yet simple dessert. Dip red or purple grapes into melted Grape Jelly, then into granulated sugar. (Don't serve whole grapes to small children)

- Fill sponge dessert shells or tarts with preserves or jam and top with fresh fruit and a dollop of whipped cream.

- Fat-free dessert:
Too sliced angel food cake with warm preserves or jam.

ANYTIME

- Make your own sandwich cookies. Spread jam, preserves, or jelly on vanilla wafers or ginger snaps, and place together for a "sandwich."

- Lowfat milkshake:
Blend 1 cup lowfat frozen yogurt or ice milk with 1 cup skim milk and 1/4 cup preserves.

- Make your own fruit yogurt by stirring 1/3 cup 0f jam or preserves into a cup of plain yogurt:.

- Sweeten a cup of hot tea with 1-2 tsp. your favorite flavor jelly.

- Use as a sauce on fresh fruits or spoon into peach, pear:, or apricot halves.

- As a special ice cream treat, spread any flavor preserves or jam on two toasted waffles. Sandwich a scoop vanilla ice cream in between.

- For a new flavor twist to brownies, add 1/2 cup of Cherry Preserves to brownie mix ingredients and bake according to package directions.

From: Recipelink.com
Adapted from source: Recipe pamphlet: Smucker's Quick Tips and Easy Recipes
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Shared by: Betsy at Recipelink.com
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