When it comes to canning, a few tools will really help make the process easier. And you may already have suitable substitutes in your kitchen. You’ll need a jar grabber, but some good tongs will work ...

Some people learn to “put up” jams and veggies at their grandmother’s knee, but my gateway to canning was much more modern. I didn’t really get hooked until I began reading a blog called “Food In Jars ...

My very favorite thing to can is jam. Not quick freezer jam. Not “in-a-hurry” pectin-added jam. I prefer to make old-fashioned, long cooking, no-pectin-added jam. Every year I make cases of apricot ...

As a fruit for preserves, the blueberry is tenacious. The taut globes hold their shape relentlessly — a quality appreciated in pie when, after a time in the hot oven, the berries burst gently. In the ...