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    Homemade Preserve Recipes

    Use these easy recipes to make homemade preserves, from popular orange marmalade and strawberry jam to more unusual (but equally delicious) apricot jam, lime marmalade, and rhubarb jam. And don't forget that if you have extra jam to use up, you can make these jam thumbprint cookies or these jam-filled shortbread cookies.

    And if you are concerned about achieving the perfect set with your homemade jams, remember the jam-setting point is where it's at!

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    Jams
    Marmalades

    Jam Recipes

    • Peach jam served with sourdough bread and butter on the side.
      Peach Jam Without Added Pectin
    • Toast served with homemade strawberry jam and butter on a pink plate.
      Strawberry jam
    • Strawberry jam with rhubarb smeared on a piece of toast on a plate.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
    • The freezer plate test with a dollop of strawberry jam to show it wrinkles when it sets.
      The jam setting point and how to determine jam set
    • Transferring homemade apricot jam into jars to seal them.
      Apricot jam
    • A jar of homemade blueberry jam with a spoon.
      Blueberry Jam
    • A jar of homemade strawberry red currant jam with a spoonful on the side and the metal band
      Strawberry and red currant jam
    • Honey apricot jam
      Honey apricot jam
    • Jalapeño pepper jam and cream cheese on bread.
      Jalapeño Jam Recipe (no pectin)
    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • A jar of plum jam served with toast.
      Plum jam
    • A pink plate with a piece of toast topped with homemade rhubarb jam.
      Small-Batch Rhubarb Jam Recipe Without Pectin

    Marmalade Recipes

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three Fruit Marmalade

    More Delicious Preserves

    • pepper jelly
      Spicy cranberry-pepper jelly
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    I am a baking-obsessed recipe developer with a PhD in Chemistry who writes about baking and the science of baking.

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    Bake With Pumpkin

    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin Muffins With Streusel Topping
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake

    Apple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Slicing into an Italian apple cake to serve it.
      Old-Fashioned Apple Yogurt Cake
    • Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife
      Apple Crumble Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • Apple butter pie stencilled with icing sugar.
      Apple Butter Pie
    • Apple cupcakes with cream cheese frosting on top and graham cracker crumbs.
      Spiced Apple Cupcakes With Thick Cream Cheese Frosting

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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