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  • Strawberry Hull Tea | Hitchhiking to Heaven
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    Saving the Strawberries

    Enjoy the high-summer ritual of freezing the best strawberries to use all winter long. You may also want to try drying the hulls to make strawberry tea.

  • Plum Strawberry Jam | Hitchhiking to Heaven
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    Plum Strawberry Jam

    I felt ready for flavors other than citrus and there were no fruit jams in the pantry. This is one of the times I’m happiest to have a storage freezer.

  • Citrus Smash Jam | Hitchhiking to Heaven
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    Citrus Smash Jam

    In these moments of too much citrus fruit and too little time, the easiest, most satisfying thing I’ve learned to make is mixed, whole-fruit jam.

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    Pickled Black Mission Figs

    It was an onslaught of Black Mission figs that got me started canning; these pickled figs were the first thing I ever made.

  • Low sugar peach jam made with Pomona's Pectin
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    Low-Sugar Peach Jam

    This low-sugar peach jam — pure peach using Pomona’s Pectin — lets you keep both the sweet stuff and the cooking time low.

  • What to do with blackberries you've picked
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    What to Do With Blackberries

    Here are some ideas for what to do with blackberries if you, too, are the recipient of what promises to be this summer’s great bounty.

  • Wild Alaskan Blueberries for Blueberry Raspberry Jam With Pomona's Pectin
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    Blueberry Raspberry Jam

    Now that I’ve (mostly) given up sugar, I make fewer preserves with it. By my count, I’ve made a sugared preserve just three times in the past year: fifty tiny jars of quince apple…

  • Apricot Apple Butter Honey Sweetened Sugar Free
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    Apricot Apple Honey Butter

    Stewart and I are turning over a new leaf. (Leaves are so light you would think it would be easy to flip one, but it’s not always, is it?) He travels a ton…