Getting Started with Preserves: Quick Pickles and Refrigerator Jams

Summer has finally arrived and with it, a bounty of fresh produce! NOFA MASS brings us this timely webinar so that we can plan what to do with our bounty this season. To extend the life of fresh vegetables and fruit, transform them into easy quick pickles and refrigerator jams. In this webinar Afton Cyrus will demonstrate how to make quick-pickled vegetables with a flexible, all-purpose brine, and how to make an easy, small-batch refrigerator jam adaptable to whatever fruit you have on hand all summer long. Afton will discuss the different methods of preserving fruits and vegetables, do’s and don’ts for preserving safely at home, and how to customize recipes to incorporate your favorite flavors. Afton will demonstrate and discuss:

• Different methods of preserving
• Quick pickles and how brine flavors can be adapted
• Making jam, different ways to thicken/set jam and how to adapt to different kinds of fruit
• Questions and Answers