You'll need four 1-quart canning jars with new lids, boiled in water for 10 minutes and kept hot until filling. You'll also need a canning pot and utensils, or at least a pot large enough to hold ...

When it comes to putting food by, there's nothing more basic, straightforward or wholesome than fruit in syrup. Talk about simple: exquisite, picked-at-peak-of-perfection Northwest peaches, nestled ...

Peaches, crab apples, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, black currants, green tomatoes — Karin Neidfelt has canned them all. Jewel-toned jars of jam, jelly and relish line her basement shelves ...

Preserving food has been a problem since the days of the cave men. Salting, smoking, pickling all work, but your food tastes like salt, smoke or pickles. Glass jars were the perfect solution, but the ...

September brings fresh fall produce to the grocery stores and farmers markets as gardens are such a magical place at the end of the season. You'll find pickles, tomatoes, beans, corn and so much more.

Now that your summer garden is (hopefully) in full production mode, you may wonder how to use all those tomatoes, peppers, and herbs. The events of the last year have fueled interest in home canning ...

Back in one of my other lives, when I at times chased hurricanes for a living, I waited out a storm at the Hatteras house of a friend. Visiting him was a sea captain killing time before retrieving his ...

Editorial assistant Nariman Jiries interviewed Susann Panek Rounds, who owns Pint Size Pie. She makes fully baked and canned fruit pies and fresh fruit pies. Name: Susann Panek Rounds, 64, lives in ...

The method for preserving food using glass jars was sparked by a contest sponsored by the French military led by Napoleon Bonaparte. The French military offered a cash prize of 12,000 francs to the ...

Novato resident Marinda Freeman, the former executive director of Martha Stewart Catering and a cooking class instructor in New York in the 1980s, brings her cuisine and teaching skills to the Marin ...

The method for preserving food using glass jars was sparked by a contest sponsored by the French military, led by Napoleon Bonaparte. A cash prize of 12,000 francs was offered to the person who ...