We are SO jazzed to be featured in 002houston Magazine’s “Things I Love” feature this month! What a way to start the year. Check out this awesome review and tell all your friends! When reached for comment on the review, several customers said, “Well, duh.”
Guys, we’ve been making jelly and jam like whoa over here! It’s not/almost never too late to place a holiday order. So far, we have made orders for:
One great way to make this happen is with our Jammer’s Dozen. It is 12 8 ounce jars for $98, which saves you a buck a jar (also comes as a Jammer’s Dozen Mini [Warning: these little guys are stupid cute] with 12 4 ounce jars).
We are fully prepared to make all of your wildest jelly and jam dreams come true. #srirachapocalypse jelly, anyone? Let us know how we can help you give an awesome and unique gift this year!
With a huge batch of jams under our belt (check our Facebook and Instagram for progress posts on that sort of thing), Ashley and I feel like it’s time to bust the doors open on this thing. The shop is now open and accepting orders.
This jam and jelly establishment is operating under the purview of the Texas Cottage Food Law which means, in short, that we can sell food we make in our home, but we can’t ship it. So that means local sales in Houston, TX either out of our home or at farmers’ markets. You can use this website to place your order, and then we complete the transaction in person. It’s rough, but them’s the breaks.
Once you place your order, we’ll be in touch with you about how you’d like to get your order fulfilled.
This first little bit might be bumpy, but if you hang on, it’ll be worth it. We promise!
People are always stopping us in the street and asking us “Hey! Are you those folks from the TV?” and we say “oh, no no, that’s not us, you’re thinking of Rick Ross and Merida from Brave, but thank you.” The second question they ask us is “Hey! What’s the difference between jelly and jam?” Well, that’s more up our alley.
The process for making jellies and jams is roughly the same. The only difference between the two is that jams are made with fruit parts and jellies are made with fruit juice. Jams are cloudy and chunky and jellies are clear and smooth. When making any jelly or jam, we start with pieces of real fruit (you can make straight jelly with fruit juice only, but we don’t) and cook them down with the peppers and other ingredients. Right there in the pan is what will eventually become jam: pieces of fruit and peppers, sugar and pectin.
If you take that mixture and strain out the solid bits, you’re left with a clear liquid that is essentially the juices of the fruit and peppers, mixed in with the sugar and pectin from before. If you jar this stuff, then you’ve got jelly.
For the most part, we make jams. We have found that our recipes don’t tend to benefit much from the added straining step to make them jellies and we prefer to have the chunks of real fruit and peppers in the jam. One of the exceptions is our Raspberry Habanero jelly. In order to get all of the tiny raspberry seeds out, we strain it when we cook it and jar it as a jelly. That stuff is pure magic.
It’s uncanny, right?
