Category Archives for "Fruit, Jam and Jelly"

Cherry Pie Filling Recipe (Canning Instructions)

By Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes

Homemade cherry pie filling is delicious and easy, perfect in pies, cobblers, on top of cheesecakes, ice cream, swirled into yogurt or oatmeal. Make this with fresh or frozen cherries for a treat all-year-round! While cherries can be hard to grow here in the Pacific Northwest, when rain tends to split the skin just as […]

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Cherry Jam Recipe Without Pectin and Low Sugar

By Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Water Bath

A cherry jam recipe is a must in every kitchen and my low sugar no pectin cherry jam recipe is the way jam should be. High on flavor instead of bucket fulls of sugar. This jam comes together easily so you can enjoy the bright taste of cherries all year long. What type of cherries […]

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Strawberry Jam Recipe without Pectin and Low Sugar

By Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Water Bath

This low sugar no pectin strawberry jam recipe is our favorite. Step by step tutorial for a homemade strawberry jam without pectin and tons of flavor. Every home needs an easy strawberry jam recipe without pectin (specifically store-bought pectin) and low sugar. Because I’m a firm believe your jam shouldn’t have more sugar than it […]

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Chocolate Cherry Sauce Canning Recipe

By Anastasia Sakawsky | Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly

This chocolate cherry sauce canning recipe is a must-make! Of all the summer fruits, cherries are my favorite by far. I love to eat them fresh, I love to dehydrate them and eat them dried, I love to make old-fashioned low sugar cherry jam and of course canned cherry pie filling can’t be beaten (in […]

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How to Can Rhubarb – 3 Ways to Preserve Rhubarb

By Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Podcast , Pressure Canning , Recipes , Water Bath

Preserving rhubarb is one of my favorite spring forays, especially canning rhubarb. My heart can’t help but love rhubarb, a vegetables that lends itself as a fruit and is one of the first things we can harvest in the spring, long before my berries and fruit trees produce. It makes a mean dessert, excellent sauce […]

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Homemade Spiced Cranberry Sauce + Canning Instructions

By Anastasia Sakawsky | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Sides , Water Bath

Homemade spiced cranberry sauce put those tinned canned jelled versions to shame. And you wouldn’t expect anything less than from scratch cranberry sauce pioneer woman style on a homesteading blog and podcast entitled Pioneering Today, am I right? You’re in for a treat today because Anna is sharing her best homemade cranberry sauce recipe today […]

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How to Can Apple Pie Filling Recipe

By Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly

Learning how to can apple pie filling means you never have to buy apples out of season, when they cost an arm and a leg, and it also means you can have pie whenever you want. Which makes it one of my favorite pantry staples. Nothing says fall like a good crisp apple. I love […]

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Spicy Peach Jam Recipe Low Sugar and No Pectin

By Anastasia Sakawsky | Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes

Spicy peach jam is one you can’t miss this canning season, especially when it’s a peach jam recipe without pectin. This sweet and hot chipotle peach jam makes an amazing accompaniment to cheese platters, as a sticky marinade on grilled or roasted meats, a dipping condiment for grilled cheese (oh ya, I did that at […]

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Easy Blackberry Jam Recipe Low Sugar with Canning Instructions

By Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Water Bath

This no sugar blackberry jam recipe, that’s low sugar and high on taste, is something no home should be without. Especially when I share how you can make this without any sugar. Yes, no added sugar, just one secret ingredient to replace all those white granules, and it can be grown on your homestead, if […]

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How to Can Apricots- Easy Canned Apricots Recipe

By Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Water Bath

Learning how to can apricots was the first canning I ever did. It was a fantastic introduction. Quick. Easy. Not to mention it yielded great results and a huge smile from my husband. That was all it took; I’ve been canning ever since. Basic fruit canning is very simple and a great jumping off point […]

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