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 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 ...

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 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, ...

Rosalynn Carter's Cheese Ring and Strawberry Preserves combines cheese, pecans, and strawberry preserves for a sweet, tart, and savory throwback appetizer that is suitable for any occasion. Bring this ...

Think back for a moment to earlier this year when we all agreed that we would try to accentuate local and seasonal products in this space. That was an easy pledge to make back in January, when ...

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 ...