With the holidays near, there is one type of gift I’m always happy to receive — a delicious jar of homemade jam. And here’s the truth: You don’t need to be Martha Stewart or Ina Garten to make ...

Small Batch Jam Co’s pink guava jam is the top seller. Photo by Karla Kane. They say when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In Pablo Lugones’ case, life gave him blackberries, so he made jam.

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 ...

This story is a component of the feature “Seasons of Preserves: Berry Jelly,” which is part of a four-part series on preserving fruit at home called “L.A. in a Jar.” Here are the four main steps in ...