Making a batch of blackberry jam is a wonderful way to bottle the last ... indicating that most of the water from the fruit has evaporated. If you don’t have a sugar thermometer, you can test ...

If you love blackberry jam without seeds ... on a stand or up-turned stool with a large bowl beneath, ready for the fruit juice to drip through. Place the blackberries, apple, water and lemon ...

So you’ll bring out some of your mother’s homemade blackberry jam.” And on and on it goes. This summer, I lived out my own moose-and-muffin story: If you give Nancy a bunch of fruit ...