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A traditional and delightful Greek custom is the offering of sweet fruit preserves to guests as a symbol of hospitality. They are called sweet fruit preserves or spoon sweets because the usual serving size is a well-filled teaspoon. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables are harvested when firm (often slightly underripe) and made into spoon sweets. These sweets are made with simple, natural ingredients that transform them into something entirely new, exciting, and delicious. It is impossible to provide a single recipe for all spoon sweets. The liquid and sugar measurements vary according to the type of fruit or vegetable used. They are not as dense as jam or jelly. The fruit should remain firm and sit in a nice pool of syrup thick enough to coat a spoon. The fruit in spoon sweets retains its original color, taste, and aroma.
The Island of Chios has several spoon sweet specialties including Lemon Blossom Spoon Sweet, Orange, Sour Cherry and Grape just like the one we are offering you now. They contain large amounts of vitamin C and antioxidant polyphenols. Considered to be a particularly energizing fruit, beneficial for asthma, anemia and arthritis. Also suitable for those with cardiovascular problems, and contains substances that improve memory, eyesight and concentration.
Spoon sweets are healthy confections, visually pleasing, distinctive, and extremely versatile. Offering them to guests is a wonderful tradition and a sign of "sweet" hospitality
Keep it in a cool and dry place. Refrigerate after opening.
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The company applies management system of food safety by ELOT (Greek Organization for Standardization) in accordance with EN ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 22000:2005 standards, for quality control.
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Each season offers our homeland a more than ample amount of Pomegranates needed to obtain the best results in the production of our jam. For centuries the preserving of fruit ensured their availability, stored in the larder, throughout the year in Greece. Our fruits used on the handmade production are carefully selected, firm and just ripe, without blemishes and bruises.
The Pomegranate jam is an important energy source, containing simple sugars that are quickly absorbed by the human body. Its consumption is beneficial for humans, particularly Pomegranates are rich in vitamin C and their nutritional value is high. Our jam is rich in fruit (over 75%) We do not add sugar; just natural preserve, in order to sweeten and set our jams. Our traditional recipe is suited to small quantities and a slow cooking procedure, which enhances the flavours and maintains a rich colour.
Our tasty Pomegranate handmade Greek jam is ideal for breakfast or for afternoon tea to enjoy on toast, freshly baked bread, a topping on yogurt or ice-cream or to make delicious tarts and sweet pancakes enriched with Mediterranean aromas. Each 100g of the final product contains 75g of fruit without any added aromas, colouring or preservatives.
Storage Instructions: Keep it in a cool and dry place. Keep refrigerated after opening for 6 months.
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Cultivation under the Integrated Management Crop system. Cultivation area: Pella ,from rich plains of Macedonia in north Greece
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A traditional and delightful Greek custom is the offering of spoon sweets to guests as a symbol of hospitality. They are called spoon sweets because the usual serving size is a well-filled teaspoon. The ancient Greeks savored combinations of nuts and fruits with sweeteners like honey and petimezi (grape molasses). However, in the latter years, when sugar was more readily available, that syrupy preserves of fruit, rinds, nuts, and sometimes vegetables became well known and part of the Greek culinary experience.
Our Black cherries are harvested by hands when firm (often slightly underripe) and made into spoon sweets. These sweets are made with simple, natural ingredients that transform them, using traditional handmade recipes, into something entirely new, exciting, and delicious.
Black cherries in spoon sweets retains its original color, taste, and aroma. Are low in calories and provide fiber, vitamin C, minerals and melatonin to your diet. A serving of sweet cherries has no cholesterol and negligible amounts of fat.
Our Greek handmade Black Cherry Spoon Sweets can be eaten in the traditional way and also used to top fresh fruit, in baked goods like cookies and cakes, and drizzled over ice cream and cheeses. Also are healthy confections, visually pleasing, distinctive, and extremely versatile. Offering them to guests is a wonderful tradition and a sign of "sweet" hospitality.
Storage Instructions: Keep it in a cool and dry place. Keep refrigerated after opening for 6 months.
Ingredients :
Cultivation under the Integrated Management Crop system. Cultivation area: Pella ,from rich plains of Macedonia in north Greece