Blue Chair Fruit's classes offer you a complete introduction to jam and marmalade making with our very own expert, Rachel Saunders! Our jam and marmalade classes make perfect gifts, and class gift certificates are the perfect present for your kitchen-loving family and friends, allowing your recipients to choose the class date that works best for them! Please visit our classes page to learn more!

Marmalade Making 101

In this four-hour introductory class, Rachel will take you through the marmalade making process from start to finish. We will cook four different marmalades, two versions each of two different seasonal flavors, enabling you to understand some of the different factors affecting the finished product so that you may create your own basic marmalades at home. Sign up now!

Jam Making 101

This is a four-hour introductory class in which Rachel instructs students in the basics of making jam with seasonally available fruit. Students cook through four different jams from start to finish, focusing on working with different fruit, achieving a variety of textures, and of course the elusive set point. Rachel's goal in the class is to provide students with the ability to make their own perfect jams at home! Jam season resumes in May.

Advanced Flavor Construction

An extension of our Jam Making 101 class, Advanced Flavor Construction emphasizes a deeper understanding of jam's flavor and texture. We build on the concepts covered in our Jam Making 101 class both by looking at ways of incorporating outside flavorings (such as herbs and liqueurs) and by exploring how to combine a base fruit with secondary and tertiary fruits.