marmalade and jam
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
are fruit preserves that sometimes find their way into mixed drinks. Marmalade is usually made from citrus fruits and sugar and includes tangible pieces of peel, and jams are made from a wider variety of fruits, notably berries, also with sugar. Deployed as a cocktail ingredient, marmalade or jam simultaneously provides sweetness and flavor (usually of one fruit) to a drink. Epitomized in the Breakfast Martini—a bracing mix of gin, Cointreau, lemon juice, and orange marmalade created by Salvatore Calabrese—this practice can be seen as only fitting, in that the cocktail itself, after all, began as part of the morning routine. See Calabrese, Salvatore.
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Saunders, Rachel. The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2010.
By: Charlotte Voisey
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).