Three recipes for fig preserves and an old recipe for Tujaque's bread pudding with tart cranberry sauceLast year, J.C. helped his wife make fig preserves from the fruit of the tree in their Slidell ...

Seems like we waited forever for great summer produce, and now it’s abundantly here -- too abundantly, if you’re a fruit-tree owner, overly enthusiastic vegetable gardener or incorrigible farmers ...

Making peach preserves (peach jam) is one of the best ways to preserve summer peaches and enjoy the taste of summer fruit all year long. This simple, old-fashioned recipe includes just 3 ingredients: ...

Life is, as they say, a bowl of cherries. That’s the optimist’s view, of course, the idea being that there’s nothing better, nothing more appealing, nothing, well, happier than a generous -- and in ...

Of course, I also bow to the late Warren Leruth's recipe. This is from "Cooking Up a Storm," first published in 2008. This recipe for his fig preserves appeared in The Times-Picayune food section in ...

Making berry preserves and jams requires some effort, but you'll enjoy the rewards when you can taste summertime flavors in the dead of winter. (Oregonian file photo) When you go to the farmers market ...

Making peach preserves is one of the best ways to preserve summer peaches and enjoy the taste of summer fruit all year long. This simple, old-fashioned recipe includes just 3 ingredients: peaches, ...

It was mid-July and berries were bountiful at the Corvallis farmers market. From gigantic loganberries and big fat Spartan blueberries to elegant little black raspberries and chi chi marionberries. I ...

Rather than use commercial pectin, such as Sure-jel or Certo for making thick preserves and jams, I like to use the old-fashioned methods that use far less sugar. A commercial pectin recipe for this ...