Preserves

Highbush cranberries aren’t really cranberries. They’re a robust shrub related to honeysuckle, and they grow wild in North America from […]

This week, I emerged from the woods in Alaska with a pocket full of recipes for apples and cranberries, made

Editor’s Note, added September 15, 2010: While this technique came straight from a published preserving book, and you can find

I was thrilled to get this month’s Can Jam assignment — tomatoes all the way, chosen by my buddy Julia

This is my favorite kind of canning project — making something wonderful (and a little bit quirky) from a plant, bush, or tree that we live with every day.

If I’ve learned one thing in the few years I’ve been canning, it’s that what you make is only as

The first jam I ever made was plum jam. There were two plum trees in the backyard of the house

I was cranky about these cucumbers. I can stand at the counter for hours slicing lemons for marmalade, but give

  Look at these funny little apricots. They’re Royal Blenheims, and I won’t make apricot jam without them. I really

I came home from the 2010 Marin County Fair with a fistful of ribbons for my preserves. Nine in all,

Last week I drove from Fairfax down to Watsonville (six hours round trip) in search of the elusive tayberry. I