Grape jelly has long been on my canning wish list, but frankly, I was afraid to ask. I worried it might be complicated and involved added pectin. And of course, there’s the matter of tracking down the ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

Simsbury Public Library celebrates the 150th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder with a series of ‘cooking from scratch’ classes at the Gifts of Love Community Farm of Simsbury at 73 Wolcott Road. This ...

Although pressing the juice from grapes involves several steps, the canning process is rather easy. Grapes are one of the higher acid fruits and the hot grape juice only needs to be processed 5 ...

This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims’ four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...

Making grape juice or jelly from juice usually requires destemming, separating skin from pulp and milling the pulp to remove the seeds. But this year Bouchard borrowed a friend’s Scandinavian steamer ...

Peanut butter and jelly go together as naturally as macaroni and cheese. Yet, nothing is as simple as it seems. PB&J fans are divided over which jelly flavor should be used to make this classic ...