The Portland Preservation Society...

The Oregonian, the greater Portland area newspaper, recently published an article, "Fare Trade: Portland Preservation Society gathers once a month to swap prize preserves", about the Portland Preservation Society, which was celebrating it's first anniversary recently.  Founded by Brooke Weeber and some friends, the group members meet monthly to swap jars of homemade preserved goods of all shapes, sizes and varieties.  It's free to go - people bring up to five jars of whatever they put up, to trade - and looks like great fun to my wife and I.  The next meeting is at 7PM, July 3, at Union/Pine, 525 S.E. Pine St.  We have lots of ideas for what we want to take to the meetings, in months to come.  Hopefully, we'll get a good crop of quinces from our tree this year.  I'd like to make another batch of paradise jelly, as well as some other Middle Eastern preserves I've got recipes for.  I'm thinking we'll cook up a pot of Peach Chutney with Dried Cherries and Rosewater for next week. Recipe and pictures will appear later in the week, with news (and pics, hopefully) about the meeting next week.