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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!

    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • A pink plate with a piece of toast topped with homemade rhubarb jam.
      Small-Batch Rhubarb Jam Recipe Without Pectin
    • Jalapeño pepper jam and cream cheese on bread.
      Jalapeño Jam Recipe (no pectin)
    • A jar of homemade blueberry jam with a spoon.
      Blueberry Jam
    • A jar of plum jam served with toast.
      Plum jam
    • Honey apricot jam
      Honey apricot jam
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • Transferring homemade apricot jam into jars to seal them.
      Apricot jam
    • pepper jelly
      Spicy cranberry-pepper jelly
    • A jar of homemade strawberry red currant jam with a spoonful on the side and the metal band
      Strawberry and red currant jam
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • Three fruit marmalade
    • 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
    • Peach jam served with sourdough bread and butter on the side.
      Peach Jam Without Added Pectin
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Strawberry jam with rhubarb smeared on a piece of toast on a plate.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
    • Toast served with homemade strawberry jam and butter on a pink plate.
      Strawberry jam

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    Make Marmalade

    • 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

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    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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