The Project: Homemade strawberry preserves

Each week, we handpick a recipe from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen that's perfect for weekend cooking. This week, we picked this recipe for homemade strawberry preserves -- consider it an opportunity to hang onto the last of spring's perfect fruit before summer takes over.

This recipe is time consuming -- the preserves have to stand for eight hours -- but the recipe itself takes only about 30 minutes.

If you try it, let me know what you think. Better yet -- send me a picture of your finished dish to  rene.lynch@latimes.com. And if you have any dishes -- or favorite L.A. Times Test Kitchen recipes -- that you'd like to see featured in future Projects, let me know and we'll dig through the archives for them.

-- Rene Lynch
Twitter / renelynch 

Photo: Los Angeles Times