This is a straightforward plum jam that can be flavored as you like. I add winter spices such as star anise and a cinnamon stick, thinking ahead to lean days with no summer fruit in the trees. Purple ...

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A pan of local yellow plums was already simmering fragrantly as a dozen people filed into the Healthy Living Market Learning Center for a canning demonstration by Philadelphia-based cookbook author ...

To achieve this plum jam nirvana, start with good fruit. It doesn’t have to be precious stuff — save that for eating fresh — but find fragrant plums and pluots. That’s obvious. This next trick, less ...

Canning is having a moment. So is pickling, preserving, jam making and all around “putting up,” as they used to say -- and now do once more -- of the season’s harvest. And if that puts you in mind of ...

For the past five years, I’ve spent my late-summer birthday making plum jam. Parties are fun. Cake is good. But all I want is the quiet pleasure of standing over the stove, stirring and staring as the ...

For the past five years, I’ve spent my late-summer birthday making plum jam. Parties are fun. Cake is good. But all I want is the quiet pleasure of standing over the stove, stirring and staring as the ...