This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims’ four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...

If you’ve got great fruit, you’re most of the way to making great jam. The rest is just creativity, time and confidence. Laurel Burleson, chef and owner of Ugly Apple Café in Madison, Wisconsin, once ...