Little Scarlet Strawberry Preserve, 12 Ounce Jar

Very tasty! I love jams and jellies and this jam is very good.

I love this jam. It's finally restored to what I remember from childhood. I don't know why there seems to be a concerted effort to ruin every wonderful food by corporations. I would think "market forces" would produce better things we'd pay for, not cheaper things that nevertheless go up in price. Dump the robber baron's solidified water and corn syrup with meh strawberries... and switch. Seriously, borrow money if necessary, but don't waste another dollar on the junk elsewhere. Jam is special and should be sweet. This jam is chunky and very sweet with an intense strawberry flavor and real sugar. It's not watered down one bit. I'm not sure if it has seeds, I'd have to go check. If so, I didn't notice it. I did have a problem with one shipment, but it wasn't the jars. Some other thing broke and there was broken glass all over my amazon box. Nothing was broken, but I couldn't use it without danger of cutting myself. I'm surprised it was delivered that way. Probably a robot error, any human would've noticed it.

This strawberry preserve is wonderful. I'd buy it again, in a heartbeat. Instead of being mostly "fillers", these preserves are chunky, like good preserves should be, with lots of chunks of strawberry. I also love that this product contains no high-fructose corn syrup or other nasty ingredients. For someone like me, who can no longer put up my own preserves, it's hard to settle for the preserves and jams found in grocery stores. This one tastes and looks closer to home made. Unfortunately, my first jar was not fully wrapped in two layers of bubble wrap. Part of the jar was only wrapped in one layer. Unfortunately, the lid under the single-layer of bubble wrapped took a hit, which broke the seal, and strawberry preserves leaked all over the rest of my order. It was a mess. Amazon sent a replacement jar right away, but the second jar arrived in the same condition, not fully wrapped and with the lid dented under the single-layer part of the wrapping, once again breaking the seal and causing yet another mess. Unfortunately, the "return this item" page did not allow me to inform Amazon of the problem, so they could fix the problem in their packaging department. I doubt if Amazon staff reads customer reviews, but I know of no other way to let them know of the problem! If you're looking for a nice quality, high-end strawberry preserve, I'd recommend this product. However, it might be wise to order it as a single item, so the leaked jam won't leak all over the rest of your order. It was a sticky mess! Thankfully, enough remained in the jar(s) that I can enjoy what didn't leak out. Delicious!

Delicious strawberry jam with no champagne flavor.

If you haven't tried Tiptree jams and preserves, you are missing out. I've never had better strawberry preserves; though the extra price is a bit steep, these strawberries are evidently special to the UK and they make the most of them! Great with homemade biscuits. Non paid.

Love it

I had high hopes for this Strawberry Preserve, Little Scarlet. I thought with the small round strawberries, they were some variety of wild strawberry OR something very similar. In the US, store bought berries are huge, flavorless and taste nothing like their wild cousins! Anyways, maybe Little Scarlet on its own DOES taste close to wild strawberries, but I honestly could not even taste or discern "strawberry" flavor at all! All I got was sugary, syrupy, sticky sweet jam. Also, it was not a deep or vibrant red as the advertised photo shows! I got 2 jars - first one arrived broken, broken seal, leaking and brown. I figured when it broke, it oxidized and turned brown. I didn't try it, but reported it to Amazon, who promptly sent me a new jar. Jar #2 was sealed, not leaky or sticky, well packed, etc. BUT, it too was BROWN!!! WTH? Some fruits and berries change with age, or depending on ripeness when picked, etc. I gave it a shot anyways. THRICE! Just too sweet to enjoy. Reminded me of a big brand of jams and jellies I recently got in Raspberry, which was too sweet to taste the raspberries, and was too dark to look appetizing. :/ Maybe if I could get a FRESH jar, it'd be better? But since it's imported, not "cheap", and I'm guessing takes a while to get to the US, I'm guessing this is not an option, and you get what you get. Luck of the draw! One thing I did like (or love? had I been able to taste them) was the WHOLE strawberries in the preserve/jam/spread. Smaller than a dime, round and plump, just like the wild berries we find in the woods in NE MN! All in all, if you have tooth sensitivity, cavities, root canals without crowns (crap dental coverage), I'd suggest skipping this. If you prefer more fruit & berries flavor or just overall, go to your local co-op (or maybe even your local grocery store), and grab a jar Crofters organic "just fruit" (green cap) line. It's not expensive, comes in every flavor imaginable, and is always excellent! I'm not affiliated with them or any jam brands, but I tried the raspberry one first (years ago), and it looked and tasted IDENTICAL to my late Swedish-Finnish grandma's homemade raspberry jam! Then I got blueberry, which tasted IDENTICAL to Grandma's blueberry pie filling! YUM! And strawberry, which is my least favorite berry, is even good from them! As for Tiptree, it looks fancy, costs $$$ (in the jam world), but just didn't stack up to other domestic affordable brands. I DO have a jar of Tiptree Black Currant that I haven't tried yet, but maybe it will be better? I'll review it as soon as I try it, but for now I've got a fridge door shelf of various flavors of other jams and spreads to get through before I open a new one! NOTE: I am a bonafide "super tasted" and "super smeller", meaning I taste and smell things that most other people don't, so my experience may be more extreme than others' of this product. Take what I say with a grain of salt, but I think we'd all be better off with a lot less sugar in our diets - save it for candy & desserts - and wish more food brands would get in board! Or use alternative natural sugar substitutes & sweeteners! Monk fruit, erythritol and stevia are all great options!!! :)

I remember as a kid helping my grandmother pick strawberries in the sunshine. We would gather flats of them and store them, still warm from the sun, in the backseat of our Buick station wagon for the trip home. The open windows swirled the intoxicating scent of fresh strawberries all around us. I thought it must be about as close to heaven as you could get. At home we made the berries into jam and placed them in rows on the canning shelf like glittering rubies, waiting for winter when we would open a jar and relive that summer sunshine all over again. My friends, this jam tastes like my memories. As soon as I opened the package I saw the tiny, perfect fruit pieces, suspended as if by magic in mid-air in the jar. Each dollop of jam contains many chunks of real fruit in a bite that makes you close your eyes and whisper to heaven. It's not too sweet and extremely full of strawberries and the flavor of summer. To spread this on my toast on a cold morning with a steaming cup of coffee is bliss. Pure bliss. I have been having an extra piece of toast at night with my tea as a snack, just because I'm looking forward to this jam so much. Eleven dollars for a jar of jam is a little expensive, yes. But it does have to come from England, where these pretty little berries smiled up into the Queen's sunshine and gathered it to bring home to you. And the jars are so adorable and vintage looking that I find myself saving them to store dried flower seeds in, or to gift to neighbors with some homemade scones and a little bouquet of wildflowers. The jam is perfect for gifting and even more perfect for savoring. You're worth $11. Treat yourself. You won't regret it.