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Grapes of WTF
Aug. 3rd, 2007 04:13 pmLast night while pulling stuff out of the fridge to make dinner, I accidentally dislodged a nearly-full jar of grape jam. Luckily, the jar itself was made of flexible plastic, so it survived the fall-- but the lid was made of a more brittle plastic that didn't. So I scooped all the jam into a Rubbermaid container, washed out the inside of the jar with a bit of water (and poured it it into popsicle molds), and went looking for recipes that use a lot of grape jam (or jelly-- afaik the main difference is that the jam is more opaque; according to the nutritional info, it doesn't have any more fiber, as I would've expected).
I am moderately appalled by the results. I was hoping to find something like peanut-butter-and-jelly pinwheel cookies, but the closest things along those lines seem to be cupcakes with jelly filling and peanut-butter frosting, or a peanut-butter cheesecake/pie with a jelly glaze... and by far, the main result of searching for recipes with the phrase "cups grape jelly" is a whole lot of Midwestern appetizers that involve mixing the grape jelly with a packet of onion-soup mix to simmer meatballs or cocktail weenies in. There's even a supposed Olive Garden spaghetti-sauce recipe along those lines.
...I'm thinking more popsicles, or perhaps a bulk batch of sorbet; all I should have to do for the latter is mesh the sugar content from the label into Harold McGee's universal sorbet charts. (Which reminds me of another gripe-- earlier this week, the local paper's food section ran a bulk review of several different commercial brands of lemon sorbet and lamented that they couldn't understand how so many companies could mess up something so simple, but did they actually post a homebrew recipe for the stuff? As they said, all you need to make it is lemon juice, sugar, and water... couldn't they even be bothered to provide the correct proportions?)
I am moderately appalled by the results. I was hoping to find something like peanut-butter-and-jelly pinwheel cookies, but the closest things along those lines seem to be cupcakes with jelly filling and peanut-butter frosting, or a peanut-butter cheesecake/pie with a jelly glaze... and by far, the main result of searching for recipes with the phrase "cups grape jelly" is a whole lot of Midwestern appetizers that involve mixing the grape jelly with a packet of onion-soup mix to simmer meatballs or cocktail weenies in. There's even a supposed Olive Garden spaghetti-sauce recipe along those lines.
...I'm thinking more popsicles, or perhaps a bulk batch of sorbet; all I should have to do for the latter is mesh the sugar content from the label into Harold McGee's universal sorbet charts. (Which reminds me of another gripe-- earlier this week, the local paper's food section ran a bulk review of several different commercial brands of lemon sorbet and lamented that they couldn't understand how so many companies could mess up something so simple, but did they actually post a homebrew recipe for the stuff? As they said, all you need to make it is lemon juice, sugar, and water... couldn't they even be bothered to provide the correct proportions?)