How to Use a Mason Jar Cherry Pittter + a Giveaway
Cherry season is about to begin in our neck of the woods. Pick-your-own cherry season starts on Friday, at one of our local fruit farms. Picking cherries is loads of fun, but pitting them…well it’s the...
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Sweet Cherry Vanilla Jam
Cherry season is one of our favorites, but it never seems to be around long enough! It seems that every year, we’re scurrying to get and create something special with these delightful little fruits!...
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Marisa McClellan Comes to Lancaster for Canning Demos & Book Signing
We are so excited to announce that Marisa McClellan, popular canning blogger and author of canning books, Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year Round and Preserving by the Pint: Quick Seasonal...
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Tips for Making Double Batches of Jam
Making Multiple Batches of Plum Star Anise Jam & Tomato Basil Jam from Food in Jars Our jamming kettles & canners were quite busy the other day as I multi-tasked, something I usually don’t...
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Apple Pie Filling for Water Bath Canning
Apple pie is one of my favorite things to make during these autumn months….along with Apple Crisp! I’d been wanting to can some Apple Pie Filling for a long time, but I was intimidated by my visions of...
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Pear Vanilla Jam with Honey + Tips for Canning Sugar-free Jam
Recently, Marisa McClellan, popular food blogger and author of Food in Jars and Preserving by the Pint, stopped by our warehouse for a couple canning classes. We talked about how to make low or no...
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Pear-Cranberry Conserve with Almonds and Crystallized Ginger
Our friends at Pomona’s Universal Pectin wanted to share a recipe from their book Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin by Allison Carroll Duffy (Fair Winds Press, June 2013). This recipe for pear-cranberry...
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Strawberry-Vanilla Preserves Recipe
Our friends at Pomona’s Universal Pectin wanted to share this Strawberry-Vanilla Preserves recipe with us. The recipe is from their book Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin by Allison Carroll Duffy (Fair...
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How to Win a Blue Ribbon for Canned Goods at the Fair
Veteran judges, Louetta Hurst and Vicki Becker, have seen their share of judging. They’ve shared their expertise at many local & county fairs and we caught up with them at the PA State Farm Show....
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Strawberry Jam Recipes and More
We are happily welcoming strawberry season here in Lancaster, PA. If you can get your hands on some fresh berries, here are a few ways to preserve that irresistible taste for later! Hooked on the...
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A Family Tradition and a Recipe for Quince Honey
In the past couple of years, we’ve had the honor of hosting Thanksgiving for my father’s side of the family, and crazy as it may seem, I love it. The planning, cooking, decorating…but most of all,...
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Review of Brown Eggs & Jam Jars + a Giveaway
Most of the cookbooks we’ve chosen to carry are quite heavy on the practice of preserving foods – which makes sense to us because most of our other products support those habits. However, as a busy mom...
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Food in Jars inspired Vanilla Plum Jam (Sugar Substitution)
Toward the end of the summer, our CSA had a couple of quarts of beautiful Plums that I just couldn’t resist. It turned out that they weren’t ripe yet, so they went into an agate tray and onto the wall...
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Naturally Sweet Food In Jars Review + a Giveaway
We’ve been looking forward to Marisa McClellan’s latest creation; Naturally Sweet Food in Jars; for quite some time and are thrilled to have added it to our Preserving Library along with the original...
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Blubarb Jam Recipe with Pomona’s Pectin
The combination of blueberries and rhubarb is less common than the typical strawberry-rhubarb pairing, but it really shouldn’t be—this lovely, deep blue jam is a delicious, tangy treat. This recipe was...
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Rhubarb Recipe Round-Up
Depending on which growing zone you’re in, rhubarb season may already be in full force, or it may just be beginning to show up in smallish bundles at the market. Often, the Red Variety of Rhubarb is...
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Plum Strawberry Rosemary Jam Recipe
Adapted and contributed by Vivian Solomon, who was inspired by a recipe in The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook by Rachel Saunders, Plum-Strawberry-Rosemary Jam is a low-sugar cooked jam made with Pomona’s...
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Low Sugar Jam Recipes and a Pomona’s Pectin Giveaway
The makers of Pomona’s Universal Pectin are jumping into jamming season with a giveaway and we’ve partnered with them by adding some vintage style jam jars and an iLid to the prize pack. Enter your...
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Using Lavender in a Preserver’s Kitchen
We made Lavender Jelly with Pomona’s Pectin earlier this year and were happy with how easy it was and delighted in the color and flavor! It got rave reviews by many of the Farm Show attendees, who...
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Preserving Peaches
Here in Lancaster, PA, we’re just now heading into Peach Picking time for freestone Peaches and are super excited! We’re watching Cherry Hill Orchard’s site to see when they’re officially available and...
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