Grape jelly has long been on my canning wish list, but frankly, I was afraid to ask. I worried it might be complicated and involved added pectin. And of course, there’s the matter of tracking down the ...

This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims’ four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...

Making grape juice or jelly from juice usually requires destemming, separating skin from pulp and milling the pulp to remove the seeds. But this year Bouchard borrowed a friend’s Scandinavian steamer ...

Although pressing the juice from grapes involves several steps, the canning process is rather easy. Grapes are one of the higher acid fruits and the hot grape juice only needs to be processed 5 ...

“I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.” — Fiorello H. La Guardia I am certain that Mr. La Guardia thought a grape’s most valiant purpose involved crushing ...