Les Confitures à l'Ancienne Wild Strawberry Jam

• A French strawberry jam made with strawberries and wild strawberries for a familiar fruit flavor with a little extra character. Keep it for buttered toast, fill a sponge cake or spoon it over plain yogurt.

About Les Confitures à l’Ancienne

• Les Confitures à l’Ancienne is the traditional line of Maison Andrésy, which calls itself the oldest professional jam-maker in France. René and Jocelyne Walther began in 1952, cooking fruit from the orchards around Andrésy, west of Paris, and selling it at the markets; their grandchildren run the house today, in Maurecourt in the Yvelines, and still cook in copper cauldrons with cane sugar. The wild strawberries here are the small, intensely perfumed fraises des bois, added to garden strawberries for depth.

How to enjoy

• Spread on brioche, croissants and scones
• Spoon over yogurt, panna cotta or ice cream
• Use between cake layers or alongside fresh cream

Details

• Net weight: 9.5 oz (270 g)
• Origin: Maurecourt, France
• Refrigerate after opening

Ingredients

• Fruits (Strawberries, Wild Strawberries), Cane Sugar, Fruits Pectin, Concentrated Lemon Juices. May contain traces of Nuts and Milk.

Questions

• What do wild strawberries add? Perfume. Fraises des bois are tiny and too fragile to ship fresh, so jam is where most people meet them.
• Copper cauldrons? They heat fast and evenly, so the fruit cooks briefly and keeps its color and taste.
• How long once opened? Refrigerated, several weeks; it is a real jam with no preservative beyond the sugar.

Pairs with

• Norwegian Baked crispbread with butter; Nina’s Marie-Antoinette tea; the fig jam for the cheese side. More honeys, confitures and flower confits.

Lello’s Point of View

• Why we chose it. Wild strawberries are tiny, fragile and intensely perfumed—the kind of fruit most people rarely encounter fresh. In jam, that perfume survives and gives familiar strawberry a more interesting edge.
• What it makes better. Toast, brioche, yogurt and sponge cake get a strawberry flavor that feels less ordinary, while the jar remains easy enough for everyday breakfast.
• How we would use it. Butter warm brioche generously, add a restrained layer of jam and serve with black tea. For dessert, spoon it between cake layers with fresh cream.
• Who will love it. Strawberry loyalists, French-breakfast romantics and anyone who wants a familiar flavor elevated by a harder-to-find fruit.
• Why it earns its place. French-made confiture combining garden strawberries with aromatic fraises des bois, cooked in Maison Andrésy’s traditional style, gives the classic strawberry jar genuine distinction.