Bonnie's Recipes
We love to use Bonnie’s Jams in so many of our favorite recipes. The luscious fruit flavors of our jams shine as a signature ingredient in everything from cocktails or mocktails, glazes and sauces, dolloped as a topping for crepes and pancakes, and of course, used as the starring accoutrement on your next cheese and charcuterie board!
Cocktails for the Holidays
After a trip to Camden, Maine to visit my friend Nancy, who likes an occasiotnal gin and tonic. Here are two cocktails that I particularly like - perhaps because the recipe ingredients include my jam.
Apricot Orange Pumpkin Muffins
I couldn’t resist coming up with an October recipe made with Apricot Orange Jam. Orange belongs to the month that includes the holiday Halloween. An Apricot Orange has that required bright orange color. So here is a recipe for a rich, warm muffin. Perfect for the chill of fall and the holiday. The pumpkin seed on the top give the muffin a nice added crunch.
Pumpkin spice pancakes
I have learned to stock up on pumpkins in October and use them through the winter season. Here is my Pumpkin Pancake recipe made tastier by the addition of some of my Apricot Orange Jam.
Hot Spiked Cider
It is early Fall as I write this and very soon the new crop of apples will be at their peak. In New England, this ripening of the most gorgeous shiny orbs, is celebrated by city folk who, once a year, wander into the orchards to pick apples. A bonus is the extraordinary pleasure of purchasing and drinking the orchard’s own fresh pressed or hardened apple cider.
Peach and Berry Crisp
Fall may be the perfect season for something sweet, hot, and bubbly from the oven, but I like to make this in the summer when the berries and peaches are both in season. Put this dish in the oven when friends or family are over for dinner, and out it comes post-meal, bubbling to add a touch of post dinner drama. I write this as Covid is with us and our gatherings are small or seated at a distance as at our house this past weekend. The fragrant, hot dessert was a hit with all of us celebrating the smallest of pleasures.
Spiked Summer Iced Tea
When I visit friends in the South, I learn to drink copious amounts of iced tea. On one visit I had a version of this spiked with bourbon. Either way, the presentation of our version made with jam as a taste booster is beautiful and delicious.