Toast on Christmas morning deserves better than whatever was left at the back of the fridge. Thursday Cottage Christmas Jam is the fix: a little jar from an English preserves maker, with Christmas on the lid and meaning it.
It is the jar that comes out once a year, for the bits of Christmas nobody photographs. Breakfast before the presents. The cheese board at nine o'clock. The Boxing Day sandwich that needs something sweet to wake it up.
This is the UK jar, and it ships from within Canada, so a British Christmas breakfast is a cupboard away, not an ocean.
Small enough to give away. Good enough that you will think twice.
Frequently asked questions about Thursday Cottage Christmas Jam
Q: How big is the jar?
A: It is a 112g jar, so on the small side. Think a week of Christmas breakfasts rather than a year of sandwiches.
Q: Is it a good Christmas gift?
A: Very. It slips into a stocking, tucks into a hamper, and it is the kind of present a homesick Brit actually uses rather than puts on a shelf.
Q: What do people eat it with?
A: Toast and scones on Christmas morning, the cheese board in the evening, and the leftovers on Boxing Day. Some people make jam tarts, if the jar survives that long.
Q: How does it arrive?
A: Packed with care for the trip, because nobody wants to open a box of Christmas and find it in pieces.
More about Thursday Cottage Christmas Jam
Christmas jam lives in the same corner of a British larder as the chutney for the cheese and the mincemeat for the pies: jars bought once a year and opened with a bit of ceremony, usually by whoever got up first.
Christmas in Canada has plenty going for it, snow included. What it does not have is the larder you grew up with, and it is the small things that do the heavy lifting when home is a long way off. A jar on the table with an English label on it does more than its size suggests.
It comes in a small 112g jar, which is exactly right: enough for the Christmas week, gone before anyone gets bored of it. It sits happily in the cupboard until it is opened, then follow the label. Spread it on toast, dollop it on a scone, put it next to the cheese, or fill a tray of jam tarts and watch them vanish.
It pairs naturally with the rest of a British Christmas food shop: a Christmas pudding, a jar of mincemeat, a tin of biscuits. Put them in a box together and you have a Christmas gift for someone who misses home.
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Christmas is on its way
The Christmas range lands from the UK in early November.
The day it arrives we unpack it, pack your order and send it on its way. Advent calendars go first, and everything reaches you within a few days wherever you are in Canada.
Order now and it has your name on it. The favourites go early every year. The people who leave it until December are the ones who miss out.
