Pamplemousse Preserves
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Bored of aimless browsing at Madison's popular farmers' markets? In Stand By Your Stand, The A.V. Club heads out to find their best and strangest offerings, and tips on how to use them. This week, we visit Pamplemousse Preserves.
The source: Madison.
Wares: Preserves, jams, and jellies made with just about anything but the usual strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries. Madisonian Lee Davenport's inspired flavor combinations—rhubarb and vanilla, apricot and pinot grigio, elderflower wine, or triple-currant, for example—make sense when tasted, but they're not the kind of things anyone expects to find all smushed together in a little jar.
Best deal: The little 4-ounce jars all go for $5 each right now, but for $2.50 market shoppers can try a cup of homemade tart cherry juice and see if they share Davenport's affinity for bold fruit flavors.
Weirdest item: Well, as you might guess from the flavors listed above, almost everything here is a little odd. Davenport's even made a spicy tomato jam before.
Serving suggestion: Each jam pretty much rolls with the consistencies and textures of its ingredients, so they're all good for something different. Davenport she says she eats a lot of her creations in yogurt, but her apple cider caramel might also go well with ice cream or crepes. She suggests serving the elderflower wine preserves with cheese and crackers, and trying the apricot and pinot grigio on toast. The triple-currant, though, is almost "tart enough that you could use it in a savory sauce for meat."
Find it at: Eastside Farmers' Market, Tuesdays, 4 to 7 p.m., Central Park, through Oct. 13.
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