Roasted Plum and Lemon Verbena Jam

Take advantage of cooling temperatures by roasting plums for this late-summer jam.

Homemade Plum Jam

If you have an overactive tree at home, or went a little nuts at the farmers market, this easy recipe for fresh plum jam will help you put your bounty to good use.

Rich Red Plum Jam

This is a beautiful jewel-red jam with a perfect balance of sweet and tart. Putting half of the fruit through a food mill and leaving the other half in quarters makes for a rustic textured jam. An overnight maceration gives you a head-start on the jamming process. It's a great jam to pair with fresh, creamy cow's milk cheeses like ricotta.

Autumn Jam with Pears, Mission Figs, and Cinnamon

Highlighting the sweet freshness of autumn figs and pears, this jam is a fall favorite. Tart orange provides a touch of zip, while just a hint of cinnamon adds warmth for those shorter, cooler evenings.

Fiery Peach Salsa from 'Little Jars, Big Flavors'

Perfectly ripe, raw peaches eaten over the sink, juice dripping down my arm—it's probably my favorite activity of summer. I prefer the fruit in this ideal state, but I'll eat peaches in just about any form throughout their glorious season. Once the summer is over, though, I usually stop with the peach frenzy for fear of encountering stringy, mushy, or bland fruit. Now that I've got my hands on Southern Living's Little Jars, Big Flavors—a book with plenty of recipes for peach preserves—I'll be ab...

Sweet's Peach Melba Jam

Bottle a classic with this jam from Sweet. Paying homage to the Escoffier peach melba, peach and raspberry preserves are layered on top of each other and sealed for, well, as long as you can keep your hands off them.

Chinese Plum Sauce

The following recipe is from the July 28 edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here! My penchant for over buying summer produce struck again over the weekend and I found myself...

Bourbon Peach Jam

Few things in life are better than biting into a fuzzy, sun-warmed peach, the nectar dribbling down your chin. This simple jam is full of ripe, fresh peach flavor with hints of bourbon, cinnamon, and vanilla. I like to serve it with warm buttermilk biscuits, or use it as a filling for a quick summer tart.

Mulberry Jam

Mulberries are a smaller, less tart cousin of the blackberry, and can be foraged from mulberry trees which grow in residential area of cities in the northeast. If you have access to these bountiful (and free!) berries, try them in this jam, which brings out their earthy, sweet flavor.

Spiced Vanilla Pear Jam

An all natural pear preserve sweetened with concentrated fruit juice.