Chances are you might be planning on making cranberry sauce from scratch this fall, for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. If you have a few more minutes, can a big batch of it instead. Then you have plenty to have on hand, but in small enough portions it won't spoil in the fridge. And you'll have… Continue reading 2 Bags of Cranberries: Canned Cranberry Sauce For The Year
Tag: jam making
Lower Sugar Plum Jam
A good friend brought me a bucket of Italian Plums she gleaned and so I needed to figure out what to do with them. So it seemed jam was what I was focusing on this week. I had realized it was September and I had not canned a single jar of jam. Now I have… Continue reading Lower Sugar Plum Jam
Lower Sugar Pear Jam Recipe: A Homemade Healthier Spread
I had various pectin brands around the house, so I decided to make a quick batch of pear jam, that was lower sugar (if you make traditional jam with grocery store pectin, it can be 7 cups sugar for a batch, this way I only used 3 cups. Which was still high for my taste,… Continue reading Lower Sugar Pear Jam Recipe: A Homemade Healthier Spread
Chocolate Strawberry Spread/Sauce
My inspiration for this chocolate strawberry sauce was for a chocolate raspberry sauce I saw on Fresh Preserving's website. It contained a lot of sugar - over 6 cups of it. And while I love raspberries, my body reminds me seeds are not my friend. So I got thinking, and adapted the concept to using… Continue reading Chocolate Strawberry Spread/Sauce
Canning Handcrafted Lemon Curd
One of the small luxuries in life I grew up with was lemon curd, because it was one of the few things my Nana passed on to my Mom. Nana wasn't known for her cooking skills (my Grandfather hired housekeepers who did the cooking and cleaning), she could barely boil a pot of water for… Continue reading Canning Handcrafted Lemon Curd