Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An array of Bonne Maman fruit preserves - Fletcher Huntley/The Takeout If you've ever wondered what type of preserves to buy at ...

Put fruit in a colander and rinse well. (If using strawberries, take off the stems.) Put fruit in a bowl, or an 8-cup measuring cup. Crush the fruit with a potato masher or pastry blender. In a bowl, ...

Northern lights dance above us this time of year and the first frost ripens the highbush and lowbush cranberries, and the first snow sparkles in the forest, making a blanket that protects our berry ...

This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims’ four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...

Checking my fridge recently, I noticed three jars of various jams staring back at me. And two more jars in the pantry. I love jam, but I just don’t have “Tea! With jam, and bread” (a la Julie Andrews) ...

As a fruit for preserves, the blueberry is tenacious. The taut globes hold their shape relentlessly — a quality appreciated in pie when, after a time in the hot oven, the berries burst gently. In the ...

As we approach the summer solstice, long, hot days spur a growth frenzy in the garden. That explosion of fertility produces the excesses that I live for. I love being swamped by 100 pounds of the ...

Mouth-staining, sweet-tart blueberry jam -- it's summer in a jar. Nothing is simpler, either. All it takes is cooking berries with sugar, plus a little pectin to help it set. So what's up with all the ...