This Cranberry Jalapeno Jam is incredibly easy and quick to make, taking under 30 minutes, with just FOUR ingredients, and NO ...

Tart, bright, and cozy, this Cranberry Cider Jelly Recipe tastes like autumn in a jar. It brings together sweet apple cider and cranberries’ zing for a jammy spread that wakes up toast, pancakes, and ...

Homemade fruit jam is a delicious, easy way to preserve the flavors of fresh fruits like strawberries, blueberries, or peaches. This recipe combines your favorite fruits with a touch of lemon juice ...

July is National Blueberry Month. Blueberries are one of the easiest fruits to freeze. They can also be canned, made into jam, jelly, preserves or syrups. Pies, muffins and other quick breads made ...

This story is a component of the feature “Seasons of Preserves: Berry Jelly,” which is part of a four-part series on preserving fruit at home called “L.A. in a Jar.” As RuPaul sings in the 2012 song ...

There’s almost no way around the fact that making preserves is a process. But for me, that’s what is so enjoyable about it. I am, to a fault, a process person. I revel in precision and attention to ...

If you’re a jam and jelly-maker you know well the substance that causes angst and anxiety: commercial pectin. Pectin thickens fruits that contain little or no pectin into jam and jelly. (If you’re ...

I followed a recipe for raspberry cordial that called for heating and straining raspberries, boiling the juice with sugar and mixing it with brandy. The next day, it had gelled, like a meat stock made ...

A freezer makes time stand still. And for anyone bent on capturing the local harvest, that’s golden. Say the berry harvest is coming on fast and furious and you’re zooming off to a five-day conference ...

Q: I read in your column about mixing powdered fruit pectin with boiling water for aching joint relief. I mix 1 teaspoon with 1/3 cup of boiling water. Then I put it in the fridge and use 1 teaspoon ...