Thursday, December 22, 2011

Spoil Yourself To Some Purple Yam Jam

By Annika Reyes


In the Philippines you'll find a purple delicacy in a container that will actually have you coming back for more. People from the Philippines call it ube jam, "ube" as the Filipino term for purple yam. This actually makes the whole jarred delicacy purple yam jam, which appears a lot more like an amateur reggae music band than a comestible.

Having said that, "jam" might be a bit of a contradiction. If you audibly hear jam, you immediately think of fruit and sugar. Yam is basically never ever a fruit, but a tuber instead. Additionally, ube jam is produced with milk, that will get some individuals quarrel that it's really more like pudding. Gastronomic terminology correctness aside, ube jam creates a sumptuous delicacy and is a preferred dessert of many people.

Two places are known for making ube jam as their specialty. In the northern portion of the archipelago, Baguio really enjoys recognition as home of the legendary Mountain Maid Ube Jam prepared inside the wall surfaces belonging to the Good Shepherd Convent.

A combination of mountain charisma, thinking about cooking nuns, as well as the idea that there's always an annoying lengthy line at the Good Shepherd shop or that whenever battling with the line, you're solely permitted to order 2 containers, has made Mountain Maid Ube Jam exceptionally coveted and remarkably in demand.

One more area identified as really being ube jam territory is the southern region of Bohol. They say that a majority of purple yam from Bohol is more aromatic and even more intensely purple. Local clans have long modified their ube jam recipes and also to give you the chance to enjoy home made ube jam put together by a Boholano is perhaps a particular treat.

At the end of your day, whether or not you go for the northern part or its southern equivalent, your encounter with ube jam at some point have you desiring to get more.




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