I've been working this week on the easiest possible raspberry jam recipe and, to fuel my experiments, have been picking raspberries from a bush that grows from a neighbor's yard over the fence into my ...

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Even though it’s October, I’m canning away the last of the summer berries. We’ve still got raspberries coming in from a local farm and I wanted to do something a little different than the standard ...

My very favorite thing to can is jam. Not quick freezer jam. Not “in-a-hurry” pectin-added jam. I prefer to make old-fashioned, long cooking, no-pectin-added jam. Every year I make cases of apricot ...