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["Hal Love" <lovehd@comcast.net>]

How about "Amber Rose"? While it is not technically rose jelly, hawthorn is
in the rose family.

Hal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:04 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] "Hawthorn" jelly; a bad name


> Ginda asked, "Jim, what does the jelly look like?  What does it taste
like?"
>
> Ginda.
>     Hawthorn Jelly is yellow with a slight brown cast but definitely more
> yellowish than brownish.  And what does it taste like?  Chicken.
"Chicken,"
> is my standard answer to such a question.  Seriously though, it has a
vague
> appleish taste, but not really.  It has a slight bit of sour that sugar
> cannot disguise, not a robust flavor, like raspberry or apricot jelly, but
a
> more delicate flavor about as intense as peach but definitely more than
more
> intense than pear jelly.  Ginda, that is about the best as I am able to
> describe it.
>
>