Boost Your Immune System with Black Mulberry Marmelade

Because black mulberries are strong against pests, you can preserve them in the fridge or you can dry them to use later on. This fruit is a great antioxidant and a great boost for the immune system. Black mulberry mollases, pectin and "pestil" (dry paste) are commonly found in Turkey. It may be difficult to make these because they need a great deal of boiling, but with this recipe you can easily make black mulberry marmelade at home.

Get Ready for the Winter with Blackberry Jam

Don't hesitate if you are fond of jam. It's the right time. Here is an easy recipe. Enjoy!

How to Salt Cherries and Preserve

Yes! You've heard it right. It's not a joke, a prank or bogus news. We love salted cherries and we want to share it with you. Salted cherries make a wonderful dish when stir fried, and its a common dish up in Giresun.

Giresun is a city up on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and is well known for its hazelnuts and cherries. Giresun was named Kerasos back in antiquity and it took its name from cherry trees. Being the motherland of this wonderful fruit ofcourse it was abundant in the summer, and folk took advantage of preserving it for the winter. This is where we get salted cherries.

Boiling Jars to Preserve Your Home Made Food

Sometimes we need to preserve our jams, marmelades, pastes, pickles, etc. to eat later on. Prepare your jam and pickles in the summer when the fruit and veggies are in season and eat them in the winter. Store your home made stuff as you wish in sterile glass jars. Some of you already put your goodies in jars to save for later, and so you should have your jars sterile so they can be longer lasting. After all the effort you've been through to prepare those jams, pickles, tomatoe and pepper pastes, etc...