Keepers
An Index to the Foods of Gideon Lawton Lane

Keepers began life as a cookbook in a small three-ring binder with spatter-proof pages. Over time, copies found their way to kitchens in the United States and Spain, creating version problems and update difficulties. Posting to the web seemed a decent solution.

This index gathers all of those Keepers recipes, sorts them by genre, and provides links to the full text. There are 47 recipes in the Keepers archive. To narrow your search, select:

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Jams, Jellies, Pickles, etc.

Rhubarb Butter
This recipe uses rhubarb’s natural affinity for oranges. There is no added pectin. The orange and the long cooking time produce a spreadable fruit, like apple butter but without all the cloves, cinnamon and other frou-frou.

Sour Cherry Jam
There is a fairly short window for picking and processing ripe cherries, so it helps to have sour cherry trees on the property. It also helps to have a propane burner outside for boiling water in the canning kettle.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Slow-Cooked Jam
We picked strawberries at a farm down the road, and we have plenty of rhubarb growing in our garden. Strawberries and rhubarb are ready to pick at about the same time, so this recipe was a perfect match. It uses no added pectin and requires about half the sugar most strawberry jam recipes call for.