Showing posts with label Grape Jelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grape Jelly. Show all posts

10.15.2013

Grape Ginger Jelly


This Grape Jam came from the grape adventure my friend
Darcy took me on. We were able to pick all the grapes by hand.
When you have been preserving food for a while people start to give you a free pass to pick there fruits and vegetables ! Just remember to give them some of your goodies once canned!




I have so many grapes but in cooking and straining them down it was not quite as much. I made a Grape Strawberry Jam and a Grape Marmalade and now this one Grape Ginger Jam and I do know how much people love the ginger! I always get a large amount from the local farm and use it in so many ways. Candied Ginger is great for a Holiday gift giving.





Once I cooked them down I did get a fair amount
of fresh juice. I let my grape mixture cool down a bit and ran it through my Jelly Strainer.

My Jelly Strainer










Ingredient's

4 cups of fresh grape juice
1 cup chopped ginger
1/4 cup of lemon zest
4 tbs lemon juice
4  cups sugar






Alright start by putting your grape juice into a large pot.  Bring this to a boil and while it is getting there add your chopped ginger. Add your lemon juice.  Bring the grape juice and ginger mix to a rapid boil, stir- stir -stir.

You want this to come to a rapid boil that you can not stir down. Now add you sugar and bring it up to another rapid boil. Like all the jam's we make this jelly is no different we need to get it to the temperature for a good gel. the gel point of 222 degrees is the temperature we need .

Once you have reached the gel point you can turn the heat off let the mixture sit for about 5 minutes. Slowly and carefully scrap the foam off the top. Here is the Foam story

Alright now all that is left to do is fill those jars 1/4" from the top, wipe the rims, cap and water bath. Water bath for 15 minutes.

This makes about 8 half pints. Make sure you date and label with the name of the jelly you have in the jar's.

Disclaimer: This is not an all inclusive recipe for making jam. You should have a basic knowledge and understanding of the canning process before proceeding. Please consult your local Center for Home Preservation for additional information and available classes.

6.25.2012

Grape Strawberry Jam

Well we all know I have been hemming and hawing about the grapes, the strainer, the time, the arm, blah blah blah...
Well here we go. We have the grapes fresh off the vine cooked down and strained. In the new strainer but I do say that I like the old method betta! But this post is about the jam so I will try not to get side tracked...Right! 





The strawberries looked good enough to eat the minute I started.  I did look and perhaps my research is just not good enough. There are plenty of plan ole' grape jelly but none with other stuff added. Thus here is one of the two I made.

They are delicious!





Ingredients
 Grape & Strawberry Jam 

2 cup of grape juice 
3 cup fresh strawberries
1 lemon squeezed in
6 cups of sugar
1 box powder pectin *if bulk 6 tablespoons
* Put the pectin and the same amount sugar into a measuring cup and mix it up it makes it easier to add and dissipate into the mixture when added.



Diane had trouble getting this to set so we tweaked the recipe a bit. This is the time I need to thank you guys for letting me know when something just does not work for you it helps me re-can and re-work a recipe. Thank you Diane! The one thing I do say is if you have had trouble with any jam recipe setting just add an additional 2 tablespoons of pectin to it.

 Instruction: 


Alright start by putting your grape juice into a large pot.  Bring this to a boil and while it is getting there add your strawberries. Squeeze your lemon juice in.  I put the strawberries in whole and mush them as I am waiting for my rapid boil. Feel free to cut them up or how every you want to add for texture and consistency that you like. Bring the grape juice and strawberries to a rapid boil, stir- stir -stir.

Alright add your pectin mixture keep stirring. Look how good those biceps are lookin'. You want this to come to a rapid boil  that you can not stir down.


This is done - see the foam and rapid boil

With all the stirring you do when making jam I find that having everything measured and ready makes the process easier.

Once the pectin mixture is dissolved add your sugar and continue to stir. 






Good your jam should be into a rapid boil and have foam on the top.










Turn the  heat off let the mixture sit for about 5 minutes. Slowly and carefully scrap the foam off the top you may get a few strawberries. Here is the Foam story

(Little side note- My grama use to scrap the foam and give it to us on crackers. We would sit and just wait for the foam it was such a treat. But today they say dis-guard it. Ya think I do...)

Happy Jarz
Please sanitized your jars  - Here is a quick note from Pick your own my go to site


Alright now all that is left to do is fill those jars 1/4" from the top, wipe the rims, cap and water bath. Water bath for 15 minut4s.  This makes about 8 half pints.






Disclaimer: This is not an all inclusive recipe for making jam. You should have a basic knowledge and understanding of the canning process before proceeding. Please consult your local Center for Home Preservation for additional information and available classes. 

6.24.2012

Jelly Strainer


Ok so much for fitting it on the big pan

Balance baby balance

Kinda creepy lusciou
That is the subject this weekend. I am going to go study up and find some new ways to make it. Ok done ..With all my Internet studies and book stuff there seems to be not many grape jelly recipes that incorporate other items. Thus Sunday was experiment with grape jelly. Thus we had a nice fresh flat of strawberries left from yesterdays BBQ. And some fresh ginger and lemon slices.







Look it all started here 

4.11.2012

One month to the day...Grape thoughtz


Well semi-recovered from the arm surgery. Still told not to use the arm but.....I noticed in the garage freezer are a few bags of grape's I cooked down ...then I smooched and d-seeded from last summer. Into my Food saver-ed the stuff goes. Now I am ready to make a batch of Grape Jelly. I never made grape jelly before. Why you ask? Well let's see





A. No little ones running around
B. Boring jelly
C. Not my favorite (We know it is all about me)
D. I am a jam girl not jelly head

E. Why?

Today I am going to go web cruising and see if I can find any interesting recipes for grape jelly. different ways to use it prior to preserving it.


8.25.2011

When you find Grapes make grape jelly....

 Ahh ha yup yet another adventure in forging....Urban that is...Darcy found me yet another place to grab some fruit to recreate into jam...I have not made Grape Jelly yet so this is a first for me...
 I am a jam girl i like the guts of the fruit to be in the jam it gives it a better taste to me...and to make a clear jelly well it seems like canning water but I will do it yes I will...

So lets review what I did with my box of grapes and I will post the Jelly recipe separate as I froze them because it was 107 deegreezz today and I was to busy to can them  ...
I just thought I would tell you a cost saving item that Helen told me about. I used the paint filters from the paint department of any hardware store they are so easy and economical. They can also be washed and reused multiple times. I am sure some of you already knew that...lol

So next week i will be making my first batch of grape jelly I will probably pop over to SB website to get some tips her site is great ...well it took a while to find a grape recipe but I found one on Local Kitchen
Kaela has a good one for grapes the thing she does but it is to late for me is she peels them and uses the peels who of thought...I can only hope my jelly looks as good as hers it looks so good i wanted to eat my laptop




Testing
I had to sample as you all know there is nothing like fresh anything...except fresh children they are a nono little smarty alicks...but speaking of children they love peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich's
Helwn my new go to for grapes girl

 Humm more you think let us not be greedy !