Marco Polo Blackberry Preserve 368g (13oz)

Marco Polo Blackberry Preserve is a blackberry jam in the Marco Polo specialty food brand format — a household-size blackberry preserve for the Balkan and Eastern European diaspora table, providing the deep, tart-and-sweet blackberry jam that is prized across forested regions of Eastern Europe where wild blackberries grow along field edges and in the countryside. 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 maintain the breakfast and baking traditions of Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and broadly Balkan households. Blackberry jam holds a specific place in the Central and Eastern European preserve tradition: the blackberry, growing wild across the forests and field margins of Croatia, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria, was traditionally gathered in late summer and made into jam or wine in households that had access to the fruit — the preserve carrying the flavor of wild-gathered fruit that the diaspora household associates with countryside summers and grandmothers' kitchens. Spread on bread or toast as a richly flavored morning preserve, use as a filling for palačinke or palacsinta where the tartness of blackberry provides a pleasant contrast to the neutral crêpe, use in baking for thumbprint cookies and tart fillings, or stir into plain yogurt for a naturally flavored fruit component.