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Lingonberry (Lowbush Cranberry) Mandarin Marmalade
Making marmalade is not quite like riding a bicycle. By that I mean that if you don’t do it for a few years, you’re probably going to have to refresh your skills, and you’ll wobble as you get started....
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Rangpur Lime Marmalade from Beyond Canning
At the sliver-end of January, I came home lugging a giant bag of Rangpur limes under one arm and a pile of mail under the other. I had been at my mom’s house, visiting her huge tree and picking all...
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What to Do With Blackberries
The past couple years have been terrible for blackberry picking here. The drought hit California hard and the berries suffered badly. In the patch I love, they fried before they were even close to...
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Low-Sugar Peach Jam
For almost ten years, I’ve had my eye on a beautiful little peach tree that graces the front yard of a house down the street. July has always meant at least one longing look over the white picket...
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Pickled Black Mission Figs
I started making fruit preserves about ten years ago when I lived in a little house in Berkeley with five different fruit trees in a postage-stamp yard — plum, lemon, apple, persimmon, and a rangy,...
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Citrus Smash Jam
It’s not the first time I’ve had to do this. A few days before leaving town at the peak of citrus season and one or two of my trees are still laden with fruit; this year it was limequats and Valencia...
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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. Taking stock, I found two kinds of plums, wild...
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Mini-Batch Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
When I first started writing about jam making, I was blogging with a wonderful group of folks who were so excited about jamming and canning that we were willing to try just about anything. We filled...
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Gin & Meyer Lemon Marmalade Cocktail
Over the past few weeks, I’ve put up four big batches of Meyer lemon marmalade, thanks to a late, heavy harvest from my friend Mary’s enormous backyard tree. Each batch filled nine jars, leaving just...
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Saving the Strawberries
Dried strawberry hulls for strawberry tea What began years ago as an idle thought — I should freeze these perfect strawberries so I can make jam all year long — has become a cherished summer ritual....
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