Over twenty-five delectable recipes for making your own jams and marmalades at home, as well as several exciting sweet and savory dishes made with jam. I Love Jam is the ultimate gift for first-time and experienced jam makers alike to discover and perfect the art of jam making. Complete with clear instructions and eye-opening recipe flavor variations and tips, I Love Jam will brighten your pantry every month of the year. Learn how to use your jams in a wide range of sweet and savory delicacies including Strawberry Sangria, Braised Short Ribs, and Brussels Sprouts with Kumquats and Smoked Salt. Jam expert Rachel Saunders, author of the James Beard Award-nominated Blue Chair Jam Cookbook and Blue Chair Cooks with Jam & Marmalade, shares her advice and full-proof techniques, from how to make the perfect classic berry jam to how to create a beautiful lattice-crust jam tart. I Love Jam reveals a world of fruits and flavors enabling you to create your own mouth-watering variations. This compact yet jam-packed book will be sure to claim a special place on your cookbook shelf. Praise for I Love Jam “It’s a great pick for experienced or novice jam and marmalade makers. In addition to discovering new, delicious jam flavors, I’m looking forward to making the Braised Short Ribs in Berries & Red Wine recipe!” —Barb Webb, Rural Mom

A home cook–friendly recipe collection of over seventy-five famed jams, jellies, butters, marmalades, and other fruit preserves, from a James Beard–nominated chef. “This is food whose time has come,” declared Mark Bittman about Sqirl, the much-beloved Los Angeles restaurant that locals, tourists, and critics alike all flock to. Sqirl all began with jam—organic, local, made from unusual combinations of fruits, fragrant, and not overly sweet—the kind of jam you eat with a spoon. The Sqirl Jam Book collects Jessica Koslow’s signature recipes into a cookbook that looks and feels like no other preserving book out there, inspiring makers to try their own hands at canning and creating. With photography and a design bound to inspire imitators, The Sqirl Jam Book will make you fall in love with jam.

Are Jelly Rolls your jam? If you're like most quilters, you love those bundles of precut 2-1/2" strips that bring a ribbon of sweetness from every piece in a fabric collection--yet you sometimes wonder what to do with them. Here's your answer! Barb Groves and Mary Jacobson of Me and My Sister Designs are experts at creating quick-and-easy quilts using precuts, and now they share nine of their favorite Jelly Roll patterns. Discover inspiring designs, perfect for throws, baby quilts, graduation gifts, and more. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced quilter, you're sure to enjoy this fresh batch of patterns for your favorite Jelly Rolls!

Over twenty-five delectable recipes for making your own jams and marmalades at home, as well as several exciting sweet and savory dishes made with jam. I Love Jam is the ultimate gift for first-time and experienced jam makers alike to discover and perfect the art of jam making. Complete with clear instructions and eye-opening recipe flavor variations and tips, I Love Jam will brighten your pantry every month of the year. Learn how to use your jams in a wide range of sweet and savory delicacies including Strawberry Sangria, Braised Short Ribs, and Brussels Sprouts with Kumquats and Smoked Salt. Jam expert Rachel Saunders, author of the James Beard Award-nominated Blue Chair Jam Cookbook and Blue Chair Cooks with Jam & Marmalade, shares her advice and full-proof techniques, from how to make the perfect classic berry jam to how to create a beautiful lattice-crust jam tart. I Love Jam reveals a world of fruits and flavors enabling you to create your own mouth-watering variations. This compact yet jam-packed book will be sure to claim a special place on your cookbook shelf. Praise for I Love Jam “It’s a great pick for experienced or novice jam and marmalade makers. In addition to discovering new, delicious jam flavors, I’m looking forward to making the Braised Short Ribs in Berries & Red Wine recipe!” —Barb Webb, Rural Mom

An internationally known master patisserie opens her personal recipe book, sharing jams that rely on seasonal fruits, traditional techniques, and their emphasis on simplicity and freshness. 32 color photos.

A comprehensive, year-round guide to jellies, jams, conserves, preserves, and marmalades, featuring over 100 recipes. If you love to cook, are crazy for fruit, or have even a passing interest in jam or marmalade, Rachel Saunders’s James Beard Award–nominated Blue Chair Jam Cookbook is the book for you. Rachel’s legendary Bay Area jam company, Blue Chair Fruit, earned instant fame for its intensely flavored preserves when it launched in 2008. Rachel’s passion for fruit shines through every part of this lavishly illustrated book, which is the culmination of nearly ten years of research. The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook is the essential jam and marmalade book of the twenty-first century, one in which Rachel’s modern yet nostalgic vision of cooking takes center stage. Rachel offers an in-depth exploration of individual fruits, a comprehensive technical section, and nearly 120 original recipes organized around the seasons. In offerings ranging from Plum Jam to Strawberry–Blood Orange Marmalade with Rosemary and Black Fig and Candied Citrus Jam, she vividly captures the joyful essence of fruit and of the preserving process. The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook is not only an exciting and vibrant exploration of fruit and of the seasons, but also one of the few books that clearly explains and illustrates preserving techniques. Each recipes includes clear and detailed directions to help ensure success, and Rachel explores a wide range of technical questions as they relate to individual fruits and types of preserves. Whether you make jam or marmalade once a year or every week, and whether you are a home or professional cook, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook is sure to claim a special place in your cookbook library. Praise for The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook “A complete and exquisite guide to making jam and marmalade at home. In addition to sharing 100+ recipes, Saunders walks you step-by-step through the process with in-depth explanations as well as photos of the various steps so you see exactly what each phase looks like.” —Epicurious “Blue Chair could well become the jam maker’s quintessential reference book.” —SFGate.com “Rachel Saunders . . . is quite possibly the high priestess of jam making. [The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook] . . . belongs in the kitchen of anyone interested in keeping their pantry stocked with delicious and unique fruit preserves. And Rachel’s instructions are so thorough and clear, even beginners are assured success.” —The Splendid Table’s “Weeknight Kitchen” newsletter

A comprehensive guide to home preserving and canning in small batches provides seasonally arranged recipes for 100 jellies, spreads, salsas and more while explaining the benefits of minimizing dependence on processed, store-bought preserves.