My very favorite thing to can is jam. Not quick freezer jam. Not “in-a-hurry” pectin-added jam. I prefer to make old-fashioned, long cooking, no-pectin-added jam. Every year I make cases of apricot ...

I've been working this week on the easiest possible raspberry jam recipe and, to fuel my experiments, have been picking raspberries from a bush that grows from a neighbor's yard over the fence into my ...

Clean and cut the fruit as you would for making fruit salad or fruit pie. For example: remove the caps from strawberries, and cut into quarters; or peel and pit peaches, and slice into pieces; or trim ...

The exact origins of fruit preserves, jelly, and jam remain shrouded in historical hearsay. Most likely invented in the cane sugar-rich lands of what is now the Middle East, the sweetened fruit ...