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 ...

Can anyone name a person who doesn’t like grape jelly? No? I didn’t think so. This is the first time I’ve ever canned anything and it went well. It was almost too easy, to the point where I will find ...

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 ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

A neighbor stopped me in the grocery store the other day, he wanted to know what he could do to prevent the sea grape tree in his yard from dropping fruit all over the lawn and driveway. The best ...

Heat oven to 375 degrees; mix flour, sugar and baking powder in a large bowl. Blend in butter with a pastry blender to make crumbs the size of peas. Set aside 1½ cups of the mixture; beat egg into ...

We are harvesting our Concord grapes this week, the third week of September. Because growing conditions vary each growing season, the picking date is a little different from one year to the next but ...

On Sept. 2, a couple dozen Maryville College students took home jars of jelly they made from Concord grapes grown on campus and processed a few yards from the vines, under trees beside Crawford House.