Gourmet Jams by Christine Ferber | Euromaxx

Christine Ferber is based in France’s Alsace region. Her customers are based the world over and include top restaurants, luxury department stores and five star hotels.
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Black cherries with violet flowers apples with caramel blueberries with licorice the steam fat bears jams and jellies are enticing for bears made quite a name for herself with her preserves far beyond the boundaries of her native France Justine Feb as small pastry shop in the town of Needham Austria at the foot of

The Vosges mountains has been in her family for four generations her jams are made in the rooms behind the shot by 6:00 a.m. the prize-winning pastry chef is in the baking room she made her first jams for sale back in the 1980s against her mother’s wishes when the Lord

Yeeaah no no no ceci my mother said no no they’re just for decoration I’d rather sell jams from well-known labels like bone maman and bel-air but the customer said they prefer this jam they said if we can’t buy it we’ll go and they left without buying anything are you so bouncy

You know what you’re nasty that triggered Christine ffs ambition whenever she was finished with making the day’s cakes and pastries she got to work on her preserves the right degree of sweetness is essential I always make a batch with four kilos of fruit and the juice of one lemon

Justine make small batches using only fruit that is in season she’s created more than 850 different kinds of Jam sometimes they’re a bit exotic sometimes conventional like this raspberry jam it’s a simple recipe the classic when I learned from my mother and grandmother she boils the fruit down in specially

Made copper pans that cost 1000 euros each a scientist friend of hers discovered that country utensils are the best with a job Justine considers Jam making not Zemlya cooler illa cooler I love colors and colors give me lots of energy when I cook I imagine a texture and a

Certain color in the pot I stir until the vision or image I have in my mind appears in the pot we can do Mopar guy walked in y la vie Zuccarello method the quality of christine Feb Aires jams has earned her the title Vendela confiture or queen of jams you will have physical

To jam clean or preserves fairy that’s what others call me but I like that it’s better than marmalade cook or something fairy or queen it’s wonderful a fearsome energy what a handsome anything but she points out that she’s a very hardworking Queen Christine Ferreira sells her jams and her pastry

Shop banned by mail-order all over the world a 220 gram glass costs about 9 euros christine is also a successful author she’s published the secrets of her jam and jelly recipes in several books and she’s given classes in producing jam in France Italy the United States and up in

Japan christine is out in her garden whatever the weather checking the ripeness of fruit for Jam they have to be picked before they’re too ripe she prefers locally grown fruit for her products either from her own garden or from regional farms back in the kitchen four kilos of fruit

Produce about 20 jars of jam Christine Feb as regular customers include famous names like the – French star chefs a land to cuss and Pabu coos as well as PA ma who is pastry shop is considered one of Paris’s finest with a pretty clear origin it would ease the fact that

People keep returning and saying oh they’re good and buying jams again and the fact that I have worldwide recognition may mean I’m doing something right bounine mole de Meza would eat but that because he feels good with it a lot of work goes into each and every jar

Christine Feb as order list is long and she has plenty of new recipes lined up