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Small Batch Blood Orange Marmalade

Posted on January 29, 2012 by marisa

When I first started making marmalade, I thought it was the same as any other preserve. Chop the fruit, combine it with sugar and cook until set. I didn’t realize that citrus needed a more specialized treatment. You either need … Continue reading →

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Marmalades From the Archives

Posted on January 18, 2012 by marisa

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working flat out on a project for my publisher. Sometime next year, they’re going to be releasing a book dedicated to marmalades and so I’ve been testing a dozen of the recipes … Continue reading →

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Home “Canned” Cranberry Sauce Made in a Tin Can Mold

Posted on November 21, 2011 by marisa

This little fish-shaped dish is my family’s cranberry sauce server. It is simply the perfect size for a can of cranberry jelly. I grew up with a clear glass one that my mom still has and a few years ago, … Continue reading →

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Urban Preserving: Small Batch Seckel Pear Jam with Brown Sugar and Cardamom

Posted on November 17, 2011 by marisa

I’m crazy for pears these days. I buy them without a plan for how I’m going to use them, just to be able to have them around to look at and munch on. Seckel pears are a particular weakness, followed … Continue reading →

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Pear Cinnamon Jam

Posted on November 15, 2011 by marisa

Last July, I spent a day in Washington, D.C., at the annual summer Fancy Food Show. I walked the show floor. I tasted a world of spreads, snacks, jams and cheeses. I took photos of everything I saw that I … Continue reading →

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Urban Preserving: Red Pear Lavender Jam

Posted on September 28, 2011 by marisa

I’ve been going a little bit crazy for pears lately. In my heart, fall has arrived, no matter what the heat and humidity seem to think. These particular red pears caught my attention while I was walking through Reading Terminal … Continue reading →

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Urban Preserving: Italian Plum Jam with Star Anise

Posted on September 5, 2011 by marisa

The day before Hurricane Irene hit the east coast, a massive box of fruit arrived on my doorstep. It was from the Washington State Fruit Commission, the folks behind the most fabulous website Sweet Preservation. A few weeks earlier, they’d … Continue reading →

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Yellow Tomato and Basil Jam

Posted on August 31, 2011 by marisa

Last summer, Scott and I spent a weekend in New York. While wandering the Union Square Greenmarket, I picked up a half pint jar of yellow tomato jam. Soon after we got home, I cracked it open and proceeded to … Continue reading →

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Urban Preserving: Honey-Sweetened Skillet Stonefruit Jam

Posted on August 29, 2011 by marisa

When we were in Lancaster for vacation, I bought too much fruit. Every time we stopped by a roadside farmstand, I’d enter a fugue state in which I’d forget how much food we already had at our cabin and would … Continue reading →

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Urban Preserving: Apricot Rosemary Jam

Posted on July 30, 2011 by marisa

I ate my first memorable apricot in 1986. I was seven years old and my sister was in her final year of nursery school. The normal order of things in those days was that my mom would pick Raina up … Continue reading →

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