1. Make your own fruit-flavored yogurt
Spoon some jam into a bowl. Top with plain yogurt. Call it fruit-on-the-bottom.
2. Bake some brie
Top that wheel of cheese with a few spoonfuls of jam, wrap the whole thing in phyllo or puff pastry, andbake at 400 degrees．
3. Add some to a pan sauce for meat
It not only helps thicken it, it adds sweetness and flavor. Try currant jam with red wine for a pan sauce for steak; use peach jam and brandy forpork chops．
4. Shake it into acocktail
Literally any cocktail. Think peach with whiskey, raspberry with vodka, and orange marmalade with gin.
5. Top creamy desserts
Pudding,panna cotta, you name it: it's better with a bit of jam.
6. Make stuffed French Toast
First, make a jam sandwich with white sandwich bread, challah, or brioche. Next,soak the sandwich in eggs and milk．最后,在很多很多的黄油煎成金黄色。
7. Whip up the ultimategrilled cheese
Jam + melted cheese + golden, toasted bread. (It's the jam that makes it ultimate.)
8. Make shortcake
Who needs fresh strawberries when you canfill shortcakes with jam(andwhipped cream, of course) instead?
9. Top your pancakes
Turn jam into syrupinstantly by boiling it with water. (Sayonara, maple syrup!)
10. Transform ice cream
Take softened vanilla ice cream. Fold some, say, marmalade into. SHAZAM! You just mademarmalade ice cream．
11.Use it to make popsicles
Thin jam with water and you've got apopsicle basethat beats the hell out of juice.
12. Serve it alongside cheese
Oh you thought your cheese plates were already fancy? You haven't evenseenfancy until you've put a cute jar of jam on the plate. (Oh, and it also happens that jam and cheese go fabulously together, which helps.)
13. Fill pretty much anything sweet
Turn cookies intosandwich cookies, makehand pies, whip up agalette, make an impressivetart．And definitely makebar cookies．
14. Add it to a salad dressing
The touch of sweetness will helpbalance your vinaigretteand make it sing.
15. Stuff a pork loin (or a chicken breast)
Use a long knife to cut out a 1-inch tunnel all the way through the loin (or breast). Fill with jam (fig, rhubarb, orange marmalade) and bake like normal.
16. Fill crepes
Make crepes.Spread a thin layer of jamon each. Roll and eat. (Mazel tov, you're French!)
17. Melt it into a glaze for sweets...
Heat jam on the stove with a bit of water or lemon juice until it's melted and liquidy, then pour it over asimple cakeorcheesecake．
18. ...or use that glaze for all things savory
Glazebrisketas it cooks! Brush over chicken drumsticks to make themsticky and finger-licking!
19. Make something British
The classic British dessert calledfoolis essentially just whipped cream with fruit folded in—but, of course, you can fold in jam instead. Add meringue to the equation and you can call itEton mess．
20. Stir it into barbecue sauce
Use it todoctor up the store-bought stuffor mix it into yourDIYversion.
21. Do the swirl
Dollop jam ontocornbread,crumb cake, orbrowniebatter, swirl, and bake.
22. Or bake itintocake
Mix it thoroughly into the batter ofgingerbreadorlayer cake．
23. Put it on your cereal
Forget brown sugar—sweeten up your bowl of oatmeal orporridgewith a dollop of jam instead.
24. Bakerugelach!
Stop reading this—seriously, stop right now—and start baking.
25. Make flavored chocolate
Stir a spoonful of jam into warmganacheand pour it over cakes. Or refrigerate until firm and use it as a filling for Frenchmacarons．
26. Make better biscuits
Instead of slathering your biscuits with jam,bake jam right into the biscuit．
