(For those who may be new to this blog, I spend nights with elderly people who need help from time to time and I like to mess with people's minds.)
Was planning to post on apple peel jelly last weekend, but I've been in a bad brain fog. Better late than never huh? It's only been 3 weeks since I started drying apples and told you all I was planning to make apple peel jelly so here goes:
To start with I saved the peels and cores from my dried apple project.
I boiled them for about an hour and then strained them through a tea towel.
The red from the apple peels made the towel look yucky, but it made the prettiest juice!
Then I measured out 4 cups of juice and 2 cups of honey. The recipe I found called for equal parts of juice and sugar, but honey is about twice as sweet as sugar so I reduced the 1:1 ratio to 2:1.
I cooked the juice/honey mixture down for about an hour because honey doesn't set up as easily as sugar. Then I brought the mixture up to 220 degrees by bringing it to a rolling boil for several minutes while stirring constantly.
Then I poured it in jars.
And put hot lids and rims on. Yes! Those are Tattler lids there :) I finally took the plunge. This was my first time trying them out. They didn't seal with the first batch. I think I may have tipped them bringing them out of the canner so some of the jelly got under the lid, but the second batch did fine. I'm so excited to have reusable lids for my personal stash! They cost too much to use if I may not get them back, so for gifts and markets, I'll continue to use the metal one-time lids.
After a 5 minute boiling water bath, I started hearing pop, pop, pop! What a beautiful sound!
Guess what people are getting for Christmas this year?
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
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