What's the first kind of store bought and home made jelly you can remember eating?

Question

Store bought was Apple jelly and we ate it with peanut butter at least 5 days a week. Homemade was Concord Grape jelly.

I have enjoyed reading every answer and all the memories that accompany them. Elderberry Jelly was the little unknown berries.
I can't believe I'm the only one here who ate Tomato preserves or jam. It was really tasty too.
I'm gonna have to have help picking an answer, too many good ones. Thank you for all the great answers.

Answer 1

I don't remember much store bought jam or jelly. I remember my grandmother would make jelly and trying to get that thick layer of paraffin off was a skill in itself! I think it was grape, peach and apricot jelly.

Answer 2

I think it was Welch's Grape Jelly that came in a jar that actually was a small drinking glass with cartoon characters printed on the outside. If you took the lid off wrong, then it was bent & you'd have to use a rubber band & Saran Wrap or wax paper as a top until all the jelly was gone! We also went to Knott's Berry Farm in the late 50's & 60's to buy our fresh preserves & get our knives sharpened...we made a day of it & it was really fun!

Answer 3

The store bought we got was always concord grape jelly. I'm not sure what the 1st kind of homemade I had was, but blackberry jam was always my favorite. I still pick blackberries every summer to take back home to mom, so she can have jam with her biscuits.

Answer 4

I never knew what store bought jelly was until I got in high school. All jelly was made at home. Every kind of jelly that mom could make, she would. Then I went to a friends house one weekend and got my first taste of store bought jelly, it was grape. I even make my own jelly now as well.

Answer 5

Store-bought memory: Welch's grape jelly...and from so many of us in here recalling it, betcha that was the first commercially-produced "store" jelly! I loved putting a big glob on top of cottage cheese for a treat...and of course, toast-toast-toast. My dad used to make Satsuma plum jam from the neighbor's big old straggly tree--and my grandma made orange marmalade, using the oranges from our own tree and a 'borrowed' Meyer's lemon from next door for added oooomph. Plum jam, grape jelly, marmalade...what more could a kid want?

Answer 6

My mother made us strawberry jam and bought us Welch's Concord Grape jam, with peanut butter, of course. I remember that we had to stir the peanut butter first, until Jif came out as homogenized.

Answer 7

Our neighbors grew grapes and gave my folks two big wash tubs full. They made grape jelly. We ate it for years. They wouldn't buy any other until it was gone. To this day I dislike grape jelly. I was about six and remember still having some when I was fifteen.

Answer 8

Store bought was Welches Grape, sometimes I thought that was the only kind that they made. It was my Dad's favorite.

I can't really remember what the first homemade jelly was, however, I do jellies and preserves, so I get to have whatever my heart desires.....Strawberry..... Blackberry......Apple......Peach......Fig, you know, just whatever's handy.

Answer 9

Strawberry jam made by my Mother and Knott's Strawberry jam with Skippy Peanut Butter on Wonder Bread!

Answer 10

I think the name was Bama and the jelly was always grape. My mom made blackberry jelly in summertime. Yum would love to have some of that now.