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Easy Homemade Spiced Tomato Ketchup Recipe
Rich, complex homemade vegetarian ketchup puts every bottle on the supermarket shelf to shame. Ripe tomatoes cook down with onions, red bell pepper, and warm spices — allspice, cloves, cinnamon, celery seed — sweetened with brown sugar and honey. Two and a half hours...
Easy Homemade Brandied Apricots Recipe
Homemade brandied apricots are the easiest impressive gift in the preserving world: four ingredients, one jar, endless praise. Firm ripe apricots simmer in a light syrup, then rest in brandy until glossy and gently boozy. Spoon them over desserts or serve them...
Sweet & Spiced Pickled Peaches: A Summer Preserve
Spiced pickled peaches are sweet, tart, and warmly spiced — an old-fashioned preserve that deserves a full comeback. Firm peaches hold their shape in a cinnamon, clove, and allspice vinegar syrup that sharpens as it sits. They're stunning alongside savory dishes...
Easy Spiced Apricot or Peach Butter Recipe
Spiced apricot or peach butter cooks down summer fruit with cinnamon, ginger, and allspice into a glossy, spreadable purée. The work is mostly a long, low simmer, and an optional splash of brandy at the end rounds everything out. Two and a half hours later you have...
Cranberry Fig Apple Preserve with Kirsch
Cranberry fig apple preserve brings tart cranberries, sweet figs, and firm apples together in one jewel-toned jar. A splash of kirsch at the end lifts everything, and lemon sharpens the whole batch. It's a fifty-five-minute project that makes you look like a...
The Ultimate Spiced Homemade Apple Butter
Homemade vegan apple butter is nothing but apples and apple cider cooked down with warm spices until dark, thick, and spreadable. Cinnamon, cloves, and allspice do the perfuming, brown sugar and molasses the deepening, and not a drop of dairy anywhere. It's a...
Easy Homemade Strawberry Jam Recipe (3-Ingredients!)
Simple 3-ingredient homemade strawberry jam tastes like peak June in a jar. Fresh, firm strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice cook down into a bright, properly set jam with nothing else added. Skim the foam, run the plate test, and congratulations — you're a jam...
Easy 3-Ingredient Homemade Raspberry Jam
Simple 3-ingredient homemade raspberry jam needs only raspberries, sugar, and lemon — no added pectin, no fuss. Twenty minutes at a rolling boil and a cold plate test tell you the moment it's set. It captures July in a jar better than anything you can buy....
Classic Rum Baba: A Decadent Vegetarian Dessert
The perfect rum baba is a small yeasted cake, rich with eggs and butter, baked until golden and then soaked until juicy. Lemon zest and a drop of almond extract run through the crumb, and the whole affair takes about six hours — nearly all of it rising, none of it...
Brandy-Spiked Peaches and Cream Dessert
This boozy, grown-up fruit salad splashes brandy and cinnamon over peaches and bananas and calls it dessert. A cloud of confectioners'-sugar whipped cream goes on top, finished with slivered almonds and shaved dark chocolate. Fifteen minutes of work, and it...
Boozy Melon Salad: A Refreshing Summer Dessert
Vermouth-soaked melon balls are summer's easiest elegant dessert: three melons, sweet Italian vermouth, and a couple of patient hours. The balls take on a gentle warmth from the vermouth while keeping their snap, and the mixed colors do all the presenting for...
Elegant Spiced Oranges with Pomegranate
Wine-marinated oranges with cinnamon and cloves are the lightest, prettiest end to a big dinner. Navel orange rounds steep in spiced white wine and brandy until translucent and glowing, with pomegranate seeds scattered over for crunch. It's almost no work — the...