Few things hit the spot like a good Plum Preserves Recipe. Making plum preserves at home is a classic way to hold onto the bold, sweet-tart flavor of summer’s best plums. People love these preserves ...

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 ...

Late fall is my season for bright, jewel-toned jars. I love how Cranberry Raspberry Preserves wake up toast, swirl into yogurt, and shine on winter cheese boards. Cranberries bring a lively tart snap.

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 ...

We once took for granted the sweet confection we spread across toast in our morning meals, and for most of us, knowledge of jams and jellies didn't go beyond what was at the local grocery store. Then ...

What could be better than these luscious preserves made from golden plums? Capture the taste of summer with this golden plum preserves recipe. My tree was so laden with golden plums, it was ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims' four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The ...