To make freezer jam, all you need are fresh, ripe Oregon berries (or cherries, or apricots, or other seasonal fruit), sugar, commercial pectin, a little lemon juice (depending on the fruit you're ...

Making your own jam and jelly is easy. At least I think it is, as I use the freezer method for most of my jams rather than the cooked method. Freezer jams require no cooking and the finished product ...

Preserve a little bit of summer in a jar with Ball Fruit Jell Freezer Jam Pectin. This latest addition to the Ball line of products makes the once-difficult task of preparing jam easy. Just combine ...

For years I researched the art and craft of preserving summer fruit, but I could never bring myself to go ahead and try it myself. What if I did something wrong? What if my jars exploded in the heat?

Strawberry freezer jam is easily accomplished with four ingredients — strawberries, water, sugar and pectin — less than a half-hour of a cook's time. MCT Freezer jams and refrigerator pickles make ...

Getting started with canning isn't as hard as you might think, but boiling jars in a stove might be a tad too much production just to save some great fruit. The halfway solution? Cut it up and make ...

A freezer makes time stand still. And for anyone bent on capturing the local harvest, that’s golden. Say the berry harvest is coming on fast and furious and you’re zooming off to a five-day conference ...

The summer bounty of fruit is delicious anytime of the year. Want to keep that yummy flavour even after your favourite fruit is out of season? Why not make a freezer jam so you can enjoy the fresh ...

Anyone can make freezer jam. Seriously, I make multiple batches and I possess zero skills of my pioneering ancestors. If a zombie apocalypse hits, I'm as screwed as any non-hunting, non-gathering, non ...

Jam-making was treated with utmost seriousness in my family. My grandmother grew up at least partly in an era without refrigeration, so preserving the summer’s bounty to consume in the winter was a ...

A favorite sweet spread for toast and bagels, strawberry jam tastes even better when made from the beautiful berries found in our gardens and at local produce stands. Jam is a slightly thick spread ...

Pectin is the key ingredient for the perfect jelly. Pectin is a natural substance in plant materials that holds cell structure together. It is more plentiful in some fruits than in others, which is ...