Belberry Jams and Preserves – Not Just for Breakfast Anymore!

Here at Belgique HQ we are well acquainted with the delights of Belberry preserves spread generously on freshly made bread but did you know that jams and preserves make a cracking cocktail when there’s no real fruit around?  

Blueberry jam and Seville Orange Royal Marmalade in particular translate well to mixing with alcohol.  Why not pick up some Belberry jam and try mixing your own drinks from these recipes:

The Knicker Twist (using apricot jam) 

Marmalade Cocktail

TheSparkling Blueberry

The History of Belberry Preserves

Belberry preserves is an extraordinary success story:  from small Belgian jam producer to supplier of preserves to the finest department stores, delis, and gourmet stores in the world (including Belgique), as well as becoming an official supplier to the Belgian royal family.

Belberry was started in 1956 when ANDRE VANDERERFVEN acquired a small grocery store called Epicerie Fine in the West Flemish city of Kortrijk. It was from this shop that he started producing preserves for the local market after a local woman asked him to make marmalade from her generations-old family recipe after the work became too strenuous for her to continue. The recipes that Belberry uses today date back to that hundred-year-old marmalade recipe.

Belberry knows that the secret to excellent preserves is top quality fruit. A wide variety of only the freshest, unblemished fruit is sourced year-round from across the globe, fully processed in-house and carefully crafted according to traditional methods. Small batches of fruit, fine sugars, juice and natural apple pectin (to set the jams where necessary) are boiled in copper urns over an open gas flame and preserved in the time-honoured way without artificial flavourings or preservatives. This ensures the fresh aromas and exquisite flavours of the ripe fruit are retained in a naturally beautifully, luxurious finish.

Belberry has since expanded into lines of fruit sauces,  balsamic glazes, and fruit vinegars to use in cooking as well as a sinfully delicious line of chocolate and fruit spreads.