Jelly Making
Posted |
| Wild Plum Jelly |
 |
| 4 hours of work.. (4 batches) This is how I spent my morning and early afternoon. The 4 hours doesn't even count picking and preparing the fruit. Ritzy and I picked the wild plums last night. It was a lot of work considering they are about the size of marbles. We picked about 3-4 gallons of them. I had Ritzy back the truck up to the trees and I stood in the back to pick the fruit. At 8:30 I prepared the fruit and let it drip all night. Got to bed at midnight........whew.........Early this morning I started making the jelly. On an earlier post I had made some tame plum jelly, but this jelly turned out clear and beautiful. It turned out that way cause I let the juice drip all night instead of just straining it like I did with the other plums. I just finished eating some on some buttered toast and it tastes wonderful!!!!! (I sure wish I had some of those english muffins made. Guess that is something to do tomorrow. I don't see them lasting long, because the son eats them about as fast as I can make them. ) I take advantage of the wild fruit because it isn't here every year. Most years a late freeze will get the trees. I don't think we had any plums last year. That's ok cause Ritzywife is making up for it this year. I still have another picking up at Mom & Dad's. I am going to make some more plum butter. I tried something today unsure of how it would turn out, but everything turned out fine. I made this jelly without Sure-Jell. I noticed the juice was very thick due to the natural pectin in the fruit, so I thought why waste a $2 box of Sure-Jell. I just measured out the juice that my pan would boil safely and put in however much sugar I wanted and cooked it to the "jellying" stage, which turns out to be about 20 minutes after it began to boil. Each batch took about an hour by the time I cleaned up the pan and utensils and got the jars and lids ready for the next batch. After finishing the jelly today I had to make out the church report for tomorrow night's business meeting at church. I am finally finished with my tasks for today. I think we will do leftovers tonight for supper.........It's a good thing Ritzy isn't a picky eater, hahaha!!!!! Ritzywife out.......................... |
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, August 03, 2010
.
You can leave a response
and follow any responses to this entry through the
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
.
