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Pumpkin jam<\/strong><\/em> is a delicious compound having a gelatinous consistency made of the fruit in question, water and sugar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pumpkin belongs to the genus of cucurbitacee and there are countless varieties, as well as many uses that can be done in cooking and not only.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its origins are pretty uncertain, for some it seems it was a vegetable cultivated in the whole Mediterranean basin since the times of Ancient Greece, whereas for others it seems it arrived in Europe only after the discovery of America in 1492, when Christopher Columbus, upon his return from his journey, brought many varieties to the Old Continent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jam is the name used to identify all fruit based preserves, whereas the term marmalade, often used in our language as a synonym, is used only for citrus fruits.<\/span><\/p>\n

The production of this sweet sauce is very ancient, it is already mentioned in the cookbook of the Roman writer Apicius, who told us that in the fourth and fifth century Greeks boiled quinces together with honey in order to obtain a sweet spreadable mixture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A rudimentary jam was also appreciated by Romans who produced it by mixing fruit, grape must, raisin wine and honey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the use of sugar instead we must wait for the Middle Ages, which allowed to obtain a result more similar to the ones we can taste today.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is in fact in this period that marmalade was invented and there are many legends about its origin. The birth of orange marmalade is attributed to queen Catherine of Aragon, who after her marriage with the king of England Henry VIII, feeling the lack of the fruits of her homeland, created this sweet compound in order to taste them in her new home as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another legend instead attributes the creation and the name to the duchess Maria de Medici, who after her marriage and the following transfer to France with her husband Henry IV, began to suffer from a lack of vitamin C. In order to solve the problem, her doctor ordered a cure made of the best citrus fruits of Sicily, at that time however it was not easy to keep fruit for the time of such a long journey, therefore in order to solve the problem they prepared glass jars with citrus fruits and sugar, on which there was the writing “for sick Maria” which in French was misinterpreted as “marimalede<\/strong>“.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The pumpkin<\/strong> belongs to the Cucurbitaceae genus and there are countless varieties, as there are many uses for it in the kitchen and elsewhere. The Rocchetta di Cengio pumpkin<\/strong> is also recognised nationally as one of the best and is also the subject of a summer festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1893,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[613,202],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1459","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-jams-and-marmalades","7":"product_cat-sweets-and-biscuits","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}