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We use strawberry jam as an example to explore the underlying principles of water activity, a key technique for food ...

Fruit preserves are a great way to add a sweet and tangy touch to your meals. They can be used as toppings, spreads, or even ...

The queen loves it, James Bond loves it, and even commoners like me are quite partial to it. It’s strawberry jam. But not just any anonymous peanut butter and jelly filling. A jam made with special ...

Range through the jam shelves of your local fancy-food shop (or your own pantry), and you'll find a lot of fancy-pants jam. You know the kind I mean: the ones with four fruits and three spices and a ...

This recipe requires little more than spreading fruit preserves on a rolled-out sheet of puff, rolling it up, slicing, and baking. The oven's heat does most of the heavy lifting, transforming these ...

Smucker's has officially been dethroned. Not much beats the simplicity of a classic PB&J. It's the perfect combination of flavors and textures with its rich, salty peanut butter, sweet, tangy jam or ...

Strawberries don’t wait for you to find them. They beckon. Their botanical name, Fragaria, means fragrance, and it’s their sudden perfume in farmers markets, stall after stall, that signals the start ...

This recipe works best with weights (how would you know if you were a few strawberries short of a pint?). Use equal amounts of fruit and sugar. We’ve listed approximate volume measures if you don’t ...

See what happens when we try to make a strawberry last forever. You’ve heard of the epoxy hot dog, but how about the epoxy strawberry? On this week’s episode we’re going to try to make a strawberry ...