Well, really 'Jellyin,' but you get the idea. My second year doing jelly. Our berry bushes are not producing much this year, but the grocery store had a super deal on blueberries, so I decided to make some blueberry jelly.
I love my food mill for jelly prep! I put it on top of a large measuring cup so that I can keep track of how much juice I have for recipes.
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| The juice goes in the pot with sugar & pectin to cook. |
I am lucky to have several canning books at this point. I had trouble finding a jelly recipe specific to blueberries (though there were several for mixed berries). I found one recipe for blueberry jelly that asked for liquid pectin, which I hadn't used before. So, I bought a box of liquid pectin to use. It seems okay, though I feel like it is a softer set than what I typically like to have for my jellies. In the same book, I found a split recipe using blueberries (syrup & butter). Since I used my juice for the jelly, I saved the pulp to make the butter.
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| Blueberry Jelly |
I have made several batches of apple butter, which I love. I put all my apple leftovers in a crock-pot and leave it to cook down for about a day. Though the recipe that I used didn't tell you to cook it in a crock-pot, I did anyway and it turned out beautifully! For those of you who might not know, fruit butters use fruit pulp and cook/set without the aid of pectin. Being able to use the crock-pot makes the process super-easy, and I love that it uses up all the leftovers that would normally end up in the compost heap. I hope that I can do more fruit butters in the future.
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| Blueberry Butter |
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