A few weeks ago I came home from the market overloaded with fruit and great ambitions for creating jars and jars of preserves. Part of my goal was to practice my skills for a canning class I had ...

And so now I’m reading that jam-making has become a favored pastime of the culinary adventurers. That’s great — there are few things that make breakfast sweeter than spooning homemade preserves onto a ...

This 3-ingredient Strawberry Jam without pectin is so simple to make and deliciously fresh. Spread it on top of a warm from ...

Making homemade jam can seem incredibly complicated and intimidating. Do you have to can it? What if you don’t have the equipment? And what if it doesn’t set?!! However, as someone who was stirring ...

We use strawberry jam as an example to explore the underlying principles of water activity, a key technique for food preservation. For those of us in northern climates, strawberries are the first ...

Our black raspberries are ripening so quick this year. I have to be vigilant, though, about picking enough for jams. The competition is fierce. The birds enjoy berries and the deer, well, they’re ...

Over the past 25 years, Jane Carroll has won a bushel of prizes at the San Diego County Fair for her jams, including a best of division, more than 25 first-place ribbons, 15 second-place and countless ...

And so now I’m reading that jam-making has become a favored pastime of the culinary adventurers. That’s great — there are few things that make breakfast sweeter than spooning homemade preserves onto a ...