Crofter’s Morello Cherry Premium Spread
Texture: chunky, a few liquid bits
Colour: ruby
Taste: nice and sour, only gently sour
Sweetness: 3/10
Calories: 35/tbs
Originally I was snobby about Crofter’s, thinking it was a knock-off of Smother’s and I dreaded running into it in the fridge.
A few days ago, I gave it another chance. Just now I had my last helping, on some lightly toasted and buttered stone-milled whole wheat. Well, I will miss it and I would buy this again when I am in a cherry jam mood. It was not too sweet and pleasantly sour. Don’t get me wrong, I love the super sours, but pairing a jam with an Alishan tea requires a bit more delicacy.
Gabi and Gerhard Latka immigrated to Canada from Germany in 1989 and started their company in Parry Sound, Ontario. Their website states that they are “largest organic jam manufacturer in North America.” I’m rather intrigued by their other jams, as they use “heritage fruit varieties like Senga Sengana strawberries [and] Willamette raspberries.”
Back to today’s morello cherry flavour, the ingredients list them as organic, along the organic fair trade cane sugar, natural apple pectin, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and citric acid.
By the way, the Crofter’s website also has a page of definitions of jams, jellies, preserves, fruit spreads and so on. The US FDA considers jams and preserves to be at least 65% sugar and 45% fruit, hence why Crofter’s had to rename their creations.
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