Strawberry Rose Freezer Jam
This delicious freezer jam features fresh strawberries and rose petals. It’s quick and easy to make – no canning required! Ingredients: 2 cups chopped strawberries 1 cup fresh rose petals…
Experiment: Spicebush Flower Jelly
As nice as it would be for every passing project idea I have to work out perfectly, unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. This just so happens to be the latest…
Redbud Pink Lemonade
It’s that time of year around here where the sweet pink mist of redbud flowers is visible around the edge of the woods when you look out the window, and…
Forsythia Jelly
Forsythia doesn’t bloom for long, but while it’s here, might as well make jelly out of it! Ingredients 1 cup forsythia flowers 1 1/4 cups water 1 3/4 cups sugar…
Spicebush Apples
Sweet buttery brown sugar and fragrant spicebush berries simmered together with slices of apple make for a delicious autumnal dessert (or snack!). (Don’t know what spicebush is? Check out this…
Alpine Strawberry Ice Cream
It is hot, I am suffering, and I have many alpine strawberries. Clearly the only thing to do here is to make ice cream. This recipe is a custard-style one,…
How to make Celery Salt
Need some things to do with celery? Here’s a way to use up a lot of it- celery shrinks pretty dramatically when it’s dried, and even more when it’s rendered…
Redbud Jelly Recipe
Redbud flowers bloom for a very short time each year in early spring, so if you want to make redbud jelly, you’ve got a narrow little window there to do…
Cottage Flower Jelly
This recipe uses an infusion of fresh-plucked flowers to make an exceptionally sweet floral jelly- a small-batch recipe and no real canning involved, so it’s an easy one for beginners!…