I'm wondering is marmalade only a British thing. You see it on supermarket shelves but I'm not sure who actually buys it. I'm pretty sure the only time anyone eats it is from those little jars you get on hotel breakfast tables.
The smooth one is OK, but I wouldn't pay for it. The type with orange peel in it is totally rank.
So can you get marmalade in the USA or is it just a British thing
Marmalade definitely exists in the USA, but it is not as culturally central as in the UK 🇬🇧. You mostly see orange marmalade, usually from brands like Smucker’s or Bonne Maman, in regular supermarkets. It is often used by older generations or for baking and glazes.
When I travelled through New England, I had an amazing toast with bitter-orange marmalade in a small café, clearly inspired by British tradition. Still, in the US, grape jelly and strawberry jam are far more popular than marmalade.
I'm not from USA, we have marmalade, but we make it from other fruits, not from oranges, lemons, or limes... What you call "jam", we call "marmalade".
In here, the difference between jam and marmalade is:
- Marmalade is a smooth, thick fruit spread most commonly used in pancakes or bread. Unlike jam—where the presence of fruit pieces is desirable—or *Pekmez*—which may contain only a very small amount of fruit pieces—marmalade must not contain any fruit pieces at all. It is made from fruit juice or pulp that has been thoroughly strained (passed through a sieve).
- Jam is a product with an appropriate gelled consistency, containing fruit pulp and/or fruit purée from one or more types of fruit, along with sugar and water. Jam is always made from whole or cut fruit, cooked down into a purée with sugar to create a thick, fruity spread. The main characteristic of jam is that it contains large, visible pieces of fruit—either peeled or unpeeled—suspended within a smooth spread. While typically made from a single type of fruit, many home-cooks combine different fruits to create new flavor profiles. Unlike marmalade and *pekmez* (a type of thick fruit preserve), jam is the sweetest spread, as the ratio of added sugar to fruit is 1:1 (1 kg of fruit is cooked down with 1 kg of sugar).
We have marmalade in the US. It’s less popular than jellies, jams and preservatives but common enough. I’ve only ever had orange, but i’ve read that it can be made from any citrus fruits. It’s not my favorite, but occasionally i crave it. So i’ll just get a couple of those little packets. Enough for one or two slices of English muffin, and that tides me over for ten months or so. Ell oh ell! I have sometimes wondered if marmalade has more in common with Marmite, because of what appears to me to be a common root word as well as both being commonly breakfast spreads. It also seems that both are an uncommon or acquired taste. Beyond that, i’ve never had Marmite and i have yet to do the deep dive to find out if they are directly related.
I have seen it for sale, but at specialty shops, and less often at grocery stores, but I do not go there looking for marmalade and that might be why I do not see it very often. I usually find things I am looking for very fast and do not notice most of the other things on their shelves.
Poppy, you're somehow a genius in asking apparently innocent questions, but not being in the USA, I cannot honestly answer that question. Nevertheless, if of any relevance, here in Belgium, at my place, I see in shops marmalade, and I do like it, I mean the orange marmelade of course, with or without the peel :0)
Mind that marmelade being available in shops and supermarkets means people do buy it, don't they? Otherwise, why would they be on the shelves there?
Yes we have marmalade in the United States of America and for your information. Miami Florida is ranked number 1 for the best place to work and the best place to live by a news cast company
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Marmalade definitely exists in the USA, but it is not as culturally central as in the UK 🇬🇧. You mostly see orange marmalade, usually from brands like Smucker’s or Bonne Maman, in regular supermarkets. It is often used by older generations or for baking and glazes.
When I travelled through New England, I had an amazing toast with bitter-orange marmalade in a small café, clearly inspired by British tradition. Still, in the US, grape jelly and strawberry jam are far more popular than marmalade.