Home canning "newbies" are learning the hard way about the importance of having the right directions when you're making jams and jellies. Case in point, this summer's instruction mix-up involving Sure ...

If you tried making strawberry freezer jam recently and couldn’t get it to set, the blame could lie with a bad recipe mistakenly inserted into boxes of Sure-Jell regular pectin. Kraft Food Group, ...

Anyone can make freezer jam. Seriously, I make multiple batches and I possess zero skills of my pioneering ancestors. If a zombie apocalypse hits, I'm as screwed as any non-hunting, non-gathering, non ...

• Use 1- to 2-cup glass or rigid, plastic, freezer containers with tight-fitting lids. There is no need to sterilize containers or process the jam. But containers should be washed in hot, soapy water, ...

We’re right on the cusp of berry season, and that means jam. I’ve made my own freezer jam every year for the last 15 years or so, ever since I realized I could use strawberry Jell-O in place of pectin ...

With today’s fruit pectin, making jam is simple and doesn’t involve a lot of talent — or so I’ve read. But my memories of mom spending many hours over a hot stove turns me off to the process. Recently ...