Extra organic jam prepared with two ingredients: fruit and brown sugar. To be spread on bread, to garnish cakes, yogurt and fresh cheese. Jam can be defined as “extra” if the percentage of fruit is equal or higher than 45%.
To spread on bread, as a filling for croissants, to stuff tarts and cakes, to sweeten yogurt.
The apricot tree comes from the border between China and Russia, and its cultivation slowly spread towards West, in central Asia, until reaching Armenia where Alexander the Great discovered it. The Romans introduced it in Italy and Greece around 70-60 BC, and thanks to the Arabs the apricot tree thrived in the whole Mediterranena basin: the name itslef comes from the arab word al-barqūq. To prepare our preserve we use just apricots and cane sugar. To prepare our preserve we use just apricots and organic cane sugar.