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Grandma Ott’s Ground Cherry Jam, submitted by Diane Ott Whealy, co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange. My Grandma Ott treasured her ground cherries for jams and pies. She would pick all she could before frost and store them in their husks under a bed upstairs. They would keep for months in that cool place and could be used fresh for special-occasion pies in the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[20,8,55],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-ground-cherry","tag-learn","tag-recipes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRecipe: Grandma Ott's Ground Cherry Jam - SeedSavers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Grandma Ott's Ground Cherry Jam. Grandma Ott treasured her ground cherries for jams and pies. 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