Jams, Jellies, Syrups and Spreads
Strawberry Mango Jam with Lime
If you love strawberries, you’ll want to make this quick and easy jam. Strawberries. The first real sign that summer, and summer canning, will soon be here. Fresh strawberries eaten out of hand. Fresh strawberries sliced over shortcake. Fresh strawberries added to my...
Fruit Butter Basics
Fruit butters are so easy to make they are almost foolproof. You can be more creative with fruit butters than with jams or jellies since there is no worry about reaching the gelling point. If half way through the cooking process you decide to run an errand, you can...
Apple Kiwi Kirsch Jelly
How to make natural pectin jelly. Although I make cases of jam every year, I seldom make jelly. Jelly is made from juice and needs pectin to set. Not many fruits have enough pectin of their own and require adding boxed pectin. Boxed pectin sets up too firm for me and...
Kumquat Vanilla Marmalade
Snowed in? Make marmalade! Here in the Mid-Columbia we are suffering through the worst winter in decades. It started snowing in early December and hasn’t stopped. Let me rephrase that – it didn’t stop until the other day when it started showering down freezing rain...
Spiced Peach Butter
August is National Peach Month, which means it’s time for peach muffins, peach shortcake, and spiced peach butter! It’s back to my Canbassador “duties” this week as the peaches are ripe and luscious here in the Mid-Columbia. IMHO one can never have too many ripe...
Sweet Cherry Almond Butter
Keep your nut and chocolate spreads - Nothing beats sweet cherries combined with almonds! It’s funny how some years Mother Nature bestows us with an abundance of one crop or another, only to snatch it back the very next year and leave us with dregs. That has been the...
Small Batch Spirited Apricot-Cherry Butter
You can turn velvety apricots and sweet, juicy cherries into a spirited confection - with help from your liquor cupboard. Everything Cherries Week continues here at Seed to Pantry as we celebrate fresh, sweet cherries and my “appointment” as a Washington State Fruit...
Cherry Mostarda
Make your 4th of July cook-out extra special with this spicy sweet relish. It’s Everything Cherries Week here at Seed to Pantry. That’s because I was gifted with a box of fresh, sweet cherries from the Washington State Fruit Commission as part of their Canbassador...
Cherry-Lime Jam Recipe
One year our sweet cherry tree was overladen with cherries. Miraculously we were able to harvest them before the birds and bugs got their fill. I pitted and froze bags and bags of cherries. My fingers were purple for days. I cooked with cherries until the family...
