Preserves and Piccalillies: Creative Ideas for Canning and Storing Your Harvest
Turn your harvest into sweet relishes and other savory and spicy preserves whose recipes were standards for gardeners of long ago. Can, freeze, or make fresh these favorite dishes and enjoy the fruits of your harvest all year round.
Strawberries for Dessert
The common variety belonging to the family “Rosaceae”, this flavorful fruit is the basis of so many delightful desserts, preserves, toppings, and confections. This has to be everybody’s favorite fruit; so many ways to enjoy them too. The sweet delectable strawberry is the very essence of summer.
Muscadine Jelly
My son and granddaughter brought me two bags of muscadines that they picked from their back yard. I put up jelly, preserves and still have enough left to make muscadine wine.
A Most Astounding Rhubarb Jelly
Learn a little about this astounding plant, and see how easy it is to make rhubarb-lime jelly.
What To Do When Your Jelly Doesn’t Jell
When jelly fails to gel, it is usually due to overripe fruit, inaccurate measuring, insufficient cooking time, or a double recipe. All the reasons in the world won’t make soft jelly firmer. But recooking might.
Five Great Uses for Jelly Jars
Many times we either recycle something or throw it away. Why not find a way to reuse something we’ve all got around the house? Here are five ways to re-use jelly jars.
