by Renee Pottle | Jul 10, 2018 | Canning and Preserving, Instagram, Jams
Combine two of the season’s favorite flavors; raspberry and sweet cherry for a jewel-toned jam. Today I continue with my seasonal cherry experiments. I love to make jams that are a little different – certainly nothing you will find in the grocery store. And the Yankee... 
by Renee Pottle | Jul 5, 2018 | Canning and Preserving, Instagram, Syrups and Spreads
Make sweet cherry shrub – an unusual way to preserve the season’s fresh fruit. Shrubs are an old colonial drink, basically a sweetened fruit juice and vinegar concoction. Vinegar was an insurance in the days of questionable water sources. Since the acid in vinegar... 
by Renee Pottle | Jul 21, 2017 | Canning and Preserving, Instagram, Jams
Velvety apricots + sweet cherries + Grand Marnier = tongue bliss! Sadly, today’s recipe uses the last of the fantastic cherries I received from the Washington State Fruit Commission. Once again, I have enjoyed creating new ways to use delicious sweet cherries – grown... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 11, 2016 | Canned or Preserved Fruits and Vegetables, Canning and Preserving, Instagram
Combine tasty stone fruits and a bit of unusual spice for a mixed fruit treat. I was one of those kids who loved canned fruit cocktail. It seemed pretty exotic to those of us who lived in cold, remote places back in the ’60s. It also helped that as a kid I didn’t have... 
by Renee Pottle | Jun 24, 2016 | Canning and Preserving, Jams
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...