Homemade Strawberry Preserves made without pectin are a beautiful item to have in your long-term food storage pantry.

These peach preserves make a great topping for pancakes, waffles, ice cream, and any number of other items.

Canned pie filling is good for making crisp, cobbler, and topping pancakes, waffles, and ice cream.

The chemistry behind making sauerkraut is that the salt begins to break down the cabbage so it releases liquid, creating its own brining solution. Submerged in this liquid for a period of several weeks, the cabbage slowly ferments into the crunchy, sour condiment we know and love as sauerkraut.

Sauerkraut is super easy to make, it requires very little equipment, and the results are delicious.

I enjoy the sweetness of peaches and love using them to make great-tasting peach jam.

Peaches are such an easy canning project and taste so good.

Fresh cherries make a lovely sweet jam. Changing the standard jam into a cherry orange marmalade gives it that fabulous citrus tang as a counterpart to the sweet.

This cherry raspberry conserve recipe is so tasty. It has the late spring flavors of cherries and raspberries which are both personal favorites.

I love mangoes so I was bound to pair them with cherries eventually and I am so glad I did in the form of canning cherry mango conserve.

Mulled blackberry infused vinegar becomes like a flavored vinaigrette and the berries make a beautiful salad topping when paired with shredded cheese and almonds.

The tangy taste of plums makes a great counterpart for the spices in this plum sauce. Plum Sauce makes for a great addition to pork, chicken, fish, or as a marinade.

Making plum juice is one of the easiest ways to preserve our plum harvest.

Plum butter is smoother with more spices and less sugar than jam but used in many of the same ways.

Canning and preserving plums allows you to enjoy them later either on their own or in another recipe. I really like using this recipe for the small plums that aren’t really worth pitting but are a perfect bite-sized snack. This preservation method for plums allows you to easily add to your long-term food storage pantry. How to Can and Preserve Whole Plums The following directions will make a 1- quart jar of canned plums. I love how easy it is knowing how much is needed for

Canned Blackberry Pie Filling is a family favorite of ours. When I was a child I remember my mother sending us out with a bowl and...

One of my favorite flavors of fruit butter is spiced cherry butter. Making fruit butter is such a great way not to waste any part of the fruit when juicing. Fruit butter tends to be smoother with more spices and less sugar than jam.

Cherry jelly has a beautiful jewel-type quality to it that makes it a wonderful gift to give with a loaf of bread or a fabulous treat to add to your toast in the morning.

Cherry juice has such great flavor and color. In addition to tasting great on its own, cherry juice can be a lovely juice to add to other juices like apple juice or make into beautiful jelly.

Homemade Sweet Cherry infused vinegar is a simple but great way to utilize your cherries.