Coronado Eagle and Journal, Volume 3, Number 46, 3 April 1915 — Jam, From “Jamaica.” [ARTICLE]

Jam, From “Jamaica.”

Jam seems to take its name from Jamaica and is comparatively a modern luxury Galt in his “Annals of the Parish” states that the fashion of jam making was introduced into Scot-' land about 1760. when berry bushes were planted by “some of our young men that had been sail'ors coming from Jamaica.” and the condiment was valued in the first place chiefly as “an excellent medicine Tor a sore throat.” A writer in Hone’s “Everyday Book." in 1826. deplored the fact that jam could not be “purchased at the shops as other articles of consumption am” —London Mail.