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 ...

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 ...

Look for thick, prolific grape vines on shorelines or wherever the soil is sandy. The grapes are ready to harvest when they turn purple—usually early to mid-October. Since grapes and poison ivy tend ...

Last year, we spent four weeks travelling through the Midwest of the United States, with one clear goal in mind: to eat as ...

Making grape juice or jelly from juice usually requires destemming, separating skin from pulp and milling the pulp to remove the seeds. But this year Bouchard borrowed a friend’s Scandinavian steamer ...

“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 ...

Drinking freshly-made grape juice and other juices is an easy way to get a range of nutrients into your diet. Although juice lacks the fiber found in whole fruit, it retains the majority of other ...