Recipes: Preserve a bit of summer
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Total time: 2 hours, 10 minutes plus standing time Servings: Makes about 6 cups Note: Adapted from a recipe by E.
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Total time: 20 minutes Servings: 8 to 10 1 cup sugar 1/4cup water 2 pounds (about 7) nectarines, sliced 1.
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Total time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Servings: Makes 32 cookies Note: Sparkling sugar is a decorative sugar; granulated sugar may be substituted.
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Total time: 20 minutes plus refrigeration time Servings: Makes 3 cups Note: Adapted from Catherine Plagemann’s “Fine Preserving.” 3 cups stemmed red seedless grapes (about 3/4 pound) 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup white wine vinegar 3 (3-inch) sticks cinnamon 1 tablespoon minced onion 1.
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Total time: 20 minutes, plus pickling time Servings: Makes about 4 cups Note: Shishito peppers are available at many Asian markets. 3/4 pound shishito peppers 2 1/2 cups rice vinegar 3 cloves garlic, peeled and lightly smashed 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon whole black peppercorns 1 small onion, sliced 1/4 inch thick 2 to 3 whole chiles de arbol or other small dried red chile (optional) 1.
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Total time: About 15 minutes Servings: Each vegetable makes about 2 cups loosely packed pickle slices Note: This can top any of the soups or be eaten on the side.
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Total time: 15 minutes Servings: Makes about 2 cups Note: Adapted from Josef Centeno. 1/4 cup sherry vinegar 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 of a jalapeño pepper, quartered 1/2 bunch fresh mint, leaves removed and sliced crosswise very thinly Freshly ground black pepper 1 bay leaf 1 red onion, trimmed and julienned lengthwise 1.
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Total time: 40 minutes plus pickling time Servings: 6 Note: BY Russ Parsons.
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Active Work and Total Preparation Time: 30 minutes plus 8 hours standing This recipe works best with weights (how would you know if you were a few strawberries short of a pint?).
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Tangerine dream For one more jar of jam, marmalade or preserves to earn a spot front and center on an already loaded pantry shelf, it’s got to be divine.
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Total time: 35 minutes Servings: Makes 1/2 cup Note: From Kim Boyce.
