Includes index.

"In Jam Session, master preserver Joyce Goldstein provides straightforward, no-fail instructions for all-natural fruit preserving, with sections focusing on specific fruits from peaches and nectarines to berries, tomatoes, figs, and fourteen others. Along with descriptions of the best varieties for preserving, Goldstein also includes dozens of ideas for using fruit preserves to elevate common foods, from pork chops to cake. Lushly photographed and with more than one hundred recipes for exceptionally delicious fruit jams, butters, jellies, chutneys, sauces, and conserves, this uterly reliable manual takes the guesswork out of putting up fruit and celebrates the bounty of every season"--Page 2 of cover.