My Country Cupboard is state licensed and inspected. All of our products are made in small batches. We think outside the jar and find a variety of ways to use our products.

Here are some great ideas. Experiment! You your imagination and share your ideas with us.

*Glaze pork & chicken                        * Apple butter on ribs or bbq pork                *Cookie filling

*Cheesecake Topping             *Filling between cake layers              *Pour over angel food or pound cake

*Flavor and sweeten hot tea              *Stir into cottage cheese                    *Make thumbprint cookies

*Put blob of jam in oatmeal        *Top pancakes & french toast          *Swirl into plain yogurt (or applesauce!)

*Spread on crescent rolls, roll up, bake as directed and drizzle with icing      *Fruit Butters make great ice cream topping            *Add Coffee Jelly to Chocolate cake batter to bring out the chocolate flavor

*Cover a wheel of brie cheese with your favorite jam or jelly, wrap in puff pastry and bake. YUM!

*Put a spoonful into the middle of muffins before baking                *Spoon over baked apples or pears

*Thin down for a dipping sauce for chicken strips                 *Glaze a ham with pineapple and apricot butter

*Mix with cream cheese and use as a filling for stuffed french toast                *Add to rice pudding

*Put a spoonful or two in a fruit smoothie to add sweetness and fruit flavor 

  *Mix with oil, vinegar & spices for salad dressing

*Make sweet Peach or Blueberrry bbq sauce, combine 2 parts Peach or Blueberry butter & 1 part bbq sauce...

*Hide a layer in a meringue pie, how about raspberry or strawberry with lemon meringue?

*Make drippings from pork or chicken into a delicious pan sauce with a cup of preserves and a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar                  *Stir into icing for a delicious dessert topping

*Make a fresh fruit pizza, use a bit of jam for the sauce, add fruit and sprinkle with ricotta or bits of cream cheese, bake!

*Thin with a little water and warm to make a syrup, poke holes in a still warm cake, pour syrup over the top to infuse the cake with flavor

*Stir raspberry or grape into baked beans with some mustard to add a bit of sweet and sour—it makes baked beans so much better.

*Take any kind—especially strawberry rhubarb, which is tart and sort of savory—then take crumbled up vanilla cookies or wafers, throw everything with whipped cream into the bowl, and fold it over a few times so that it's a swirl of jam and cream and cookies, and nuts or chocolate chips if you want. Then throw it in a parfait dish.

*Use Gooseberry jam to glaze carrots with mustard and caraway seeds.

*Pretzel-coated chicken legs may sound weird, but dunk 'em in jam and they're an instant favorite. Try apricot, then dip away for a sweet-and-tangy finale.

*A jar of plum butter and bottled barbecue sauce tossed with frozen meatballs and jalepeno smoked sausage, soak up the sweet-and-smoky goodness when cooked in the crockpot.