Capturing all the flavors of the growing season in a jelly jar is one of my passions. This year-long quest to bottle sunlight begins early each spring when the wee purple violet flowers appear, hiding ...

Wild jelly can be made from a wide variety of plants that are abundant across Illinois, such as our state flower, the violet. Wild jelly can be made from a wide variety of plants that are abundant ...

“Clark, that’s the gift that keeps on giving.” No truer words have ever described a Jelly of the Month Club. Yet, upon my annual family viewing of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” a thought ...

I couldn’t resist picking a whole bunch of wild forsythia blossoms to make my annual batch of forsythia jelly. Mother Nature provides a variety of edible blossoms in the spring for tossing into salads ...