Creating a meal from scratch is both challenging and delicious, much like playing "Stairway to Heaven" on a clarinet made out of a candy cane. Meld meals from the proper ingredients with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of gourmet jellies, sauces, and condiments at Fischer & Wieser's Das Peach Haus in Fredericksburg.

Das Peach Haus has distributed Fischer and Wieser's extensive selection of gourmet semisolids since 1969. A bottle of Original Roasted Raspberry Chipotle Sauce ($9.95) imparts sweet and spicy flavors when slathered over grilled meats, mixed into a salad dressing, or sipped from an elegant highball. A panoply of testing stations lets visitors sample dips such as the Salsa A La Charra ($6.95), a gluten-free mélange of roasted tomatoes, onion, and cilantro, as well as the Sweet Onion and Pepper Relish-Spread ($5.95), which turns heads at dinner parties with an intoxicating combination of flavor-notes. Gourmands mull over marmalade choices while enjoying the surrounding landscape from the outdoor deck, which overlooks a pond, the verdant countryside, and endless fields of mustard.