Recipes

Looking for the best quick bread recipe for fall? This cranberry orange bread is soft, zesty, and full of juicy cranberries. A simple recipe that delivers bakery-style results every time! Looking for the best quick bread recipe for fall? This cranberry orange bread is soft, zesty, and full of juicy cranberries. A simple recipe that delivers bakery-style results every time!

I love cranberry orange bread. It is the perfect combination of oranges and cranberries. I like to make it during the holiday season…or you can make it any time of year if you buy some extra cranberries during the holidays and freeze them.   This bread also freezes well for several months, so if you…

Read More Easy Cranberry Orange Bread – A Fall Favorite!

Canning elderberry peach jam. Elderberries and peaches are the perfect combination for a delicious summer jam. Step by step canning recipe for beginning canners. Canning elderberry peach jam. Elderberries and peaches are the perfect combination for a delicious summer jam. Step by step canning recipe for beginning canners.

If you are fortunate to live near a place where you can pick wild elderberries, then you are in for a real treat. Elderberries are pretty sour on their own, but when you combine them with peaches, they turn into a really sweet treat. And, canning elderberry peach jam is easier than you think.  …

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Easy recipe for canning apple pie filling. One of my favorite fall canning recipes! Easy recipe for canning apple pie filling. One of my favorite fall canning recipes!

I love apple pie, but it takes so long to make it that I often choose to make something else instead. My mom used to make apple pies and freeze them, which is a great idea, but still a lot of work. Canning apple filling was always an option, but I didn’t know if it…

Read More Delicious Canning Recipe: Homemade Apple Pie Filling for Year-Round Enjoyment!

These blackberry pie bars are an easy, delicious summer dessert to make from fresh blackberries. These blackberry pie bars are an easy, delicious summer dessert to make from fresh blackberries.

I have been spending the past week picking wild blackberries. Lots and lots of blackberries. There are lots of things you can make from blackberries. Pies and blackberry syrup are two of my favorite. I recently stumbled across a recipe for these blackberry pie bars and I decided to give them a try. They’re wonderful,…

Read More The Best Blackberry Pie Bars – Juicy, Sweet & Perfectly Crumbly

Easy recipe for canning plum jelly. Learn how to make jelly like a pro, just like grandma did. Easy recipe for canning plum jelly. Learn how to make jelly like a pro, just like grandma did.

How to Can Plum Jelly If you or someone you know has a plum tree, then you are probably trying to decide what to do with all those plums!  I’ve tried making plum jam, spiced plum jam, and even Chinese plum sauce before, but for some reason my family doesn’t like all the big chunks of…

Read More Sweet and Tangy Canning Recipe: Homemade Plum Jelly!