Marco Polo Apricot Preserve 368g (13oz)

Marco Polo Apricot Preserve is an apricot jam in the Marco Polo specialty food brand format — a household-size apricot preserve for the Balkan and Eastern European diaspora table, one of the most beloved jam flavors in Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, and broadly Central and Eastern European breakfast and baking culture. Marco Polo is a North American specialty food brand producing the Eastern European pantry staples that the diaspora kitchen keeps for everyday use, including the jams and preserves that European households consume at every breakfast and use in the pastry and baking traditions that define their food culture. Apricot jam holds a particularly important position in Central and Eastern European food culture: it is the jam that fills kiflice and rogljići, the jam that glazes Hungarian Apricot Walnut cake (sárgabarack dzsem is the classic Hungarian glaze), the jam that spreads on warm pogača in Croatia, and the standard filling of the sweet crêpe (palačinka in Croatian, palacsinta in Hungarian) that is the most universal homemade dessert across the region — making apricot preserve the one flavor that bakers across Central and Eastern Europe return to most consistently. Spread on warm bread or roll for a classic breakfast preserve, use as the filling and glazing jam for kiflice, strudel, and apricot-glazed cakes, fill palačinke and palacsinta for the traditional Central European dessert, or use as the apricot jam base for any baking recipe that calls for a glossy, fruit-forward jam glaze.