Serving Suggestions
Curds
When people ask, how do I serve this, I tell them, use it on anything made with flour! You can spread curds on toast, english muffins, crumpets, between layers of cake, over the top of angel food, pound cake or sponge cake.
Here are some other ideas from customers.....
Make some basic muffins and just when they come out of the oven and are still warm, use an injector to fill the inside with curd.
Instead of filling cream puffs with cream, fill with a mixture of cream and curds.
Add half a jar of Lime, Lemon or Orange curd to 2 cups of unsweetened Whipped Cream. Put a dollop on a slice of pound cake or angel food cake and top with a few fresh strawberries or raspberries for a quick summer dessert.
For a quick after school treat, serve some vanilla wafers or shortbread with a small bowl of lemon curd. You can mix the curd with whipped topping or vanilla pudding as well.
Little tarts are always a treat and very easy to make. Roll out a pre-made thawed pie crust shell and cut into rounds. Place the rounds into mini muffin tins and bake until light brown. Remove and cool on a rack then fill halfway with curd and top with whipped topping, or fill halfway with vanilla pudding and top with curd. Easy and impressive!
Chewy Chocolate Sauces
Warm for a few seconds at a time in the microwave, or remove from the jar and warm in the top of a double boiler. Pour onto ice cream and then chew your way through your newest favorite dessert!
You can also dip strawberries, orange slices or angel food cake into warm chocolate sauce.
* Product can cause burns to skin if it is allowed to boil over in jar and you are silly enough to put your hands on it. (speaking from recent experience) Please be careful when warming these chocolate sauces. If you do burn yourself, an aloe vera leaf wrapped around the burn will help a lot!
Wine Jellies
- Chardonnay - Use as a glaze over fish or chicken (Salmon is wonderful) or with Shrimp. Also good over a white cheese such as Brie, Cream Cheese or Chevre.
- White Zinfandel - Same as Chardonnay.
- Merlot & Sangria - Great as dessert sauces. My favorite dessert is to put a spoonful of jelly on the bottom of a pretty wine glass, place slightly softened Vanilla Bean ice cream on that, and then drizzle some of our dark chocolate sauce over the top. You can finish with berries or a thin cookie wafer on top.
We also love to grill peaches either on the barbecue, or in the broiler with the Merlot as a glaze.
- Burgundy & Cabernet are great as a glaze on red meat or pork or could be injected into a roast.
Pepper Jellies
The most popular use for pepper jellies is to serve over cream cheese with crackers. But here are some other suggestions.
- Use as a glaze on chicken, fish or meat loaf. Barbecue cooked slices of meat loaf and glaze with Jalapeno Jelly for the last 5 minutes.
- Put some in your grilled cheese sandwich.
- Place a tortilla flat and cover half of it with cream cheese. Spread with pepper jelly of your choice, shred some rotisserie chicken over it. Roll and cut into pinwheels.
- When making corn muffins, fill the muffin tin half full of batter, place a dollop of jelly and a teaspoon of cream cheese in each well. Cover with remaining batter and cook.
- Warm a wedge of brie in the oven or microwave, top with pepper jelly and serve with sourdough bread slices.
Fruit Spreads
Our delightful fruit spreads are wonderful on their own, on toast or plain bread, but we highly recommend you try our Sweet Comfort Marmalade, Habanero Peach Jam, Ginger Peach Jam, Margarita Marmalade or Brandied Cherry Jam as a glaze for your barbecued chicken or pork.
Some of these items are seasonal so only available during the summer at our flea markets. If you are interested in purchasing them and do not live in S. Colorado, please email us for availability.
