The Hen wrote:'Nother off topic post. Sorry.
So the difference is:Sue U wrote:This is America, mate; we have jelly, jam and preserves.Gob wrote:I think you strange buggers call jam, "jelly".
'Jelly' is an entirely strained 'jam' with no identifiable fruit product in it;
'Jam is a conserve of fruit that is palpable, you might find seeds or small squishy lumps of a fruit like apricot or cherry in it; and
'Preserves' have large identifiable parts of fruit product, like peel in marmalade; OR
'Preserves' are bottled whole fruit.
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Hen, jelly is crushed strained fruit, mixed with pectin and sugar, so yes it does have identifiable fruit product -- the juice. Kind of like jelled wine

Jam has pieces/chunks of the fruit, the juice, pectin, and sugar.
Preserves is whole fruits, pectin, sugar. (As contrasted with canned fruit, which is whole fruit in juice or syrup, no pectin). Some people use the term interchangeably with jam.
Marmalade is jam or jelly with peel. Not as popular here as in the Commonwealth nations, but some of us like it.
We also have fruit "butter" which is the fruit cooked long and slow, with sugar and possibly spice, and them milled or sieved to be a soft consistency. We make this out of apples, peaches and even pumpkin.