Category Fruit Preserves

Fruit preserving recipes from Aunt Bertha’s Recipe Box, including jams, jellies, fruit butters, and other ways of saving seasonal fruit for later.

Apple Butter Made Vermont Way

An old newspaper clipping shares a Vermont-style apple butter recipe made with fresh apples, cider, dark brown sugar, and warm spices. Slowly cooked until thick and rich, it's a traditional preserve made for filling jars.

Apple Butter

A simple Apple Butter recipe flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice.

Rhubarb Conserve

A typed recipe for Rhubarb Conserve—rhubarb, citrus, raisins, and almonds come together in a preserve that’s anything but ordinary.

Rhubarb Jam

A 1956 rhubarb jam recipe made with raspberry Jell-O, using just three simple ingredients.