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S T E P # I - The makings of Violet and Dandelion Jelly!
Pick 5 cups of organic flowers, remove the green from the Dandelion and cover 2 x the flowers with boiling water - S T E E P overnight.
Run to store and get lemons and the low to no pectin box!
Tonight we rest and tomorrow we cook!
Finishing the processing on the second round of blueberries
Making jam!
It's a simple recipe, but a lot of babysitting.
Just fresh berries, sugar, lemon juice, and pectin.
It's always amazing how much liquid these little berries actually hold.
Ok so... I didn't boil it long enough for the recipe so it's actually jelly.. which is fine.
But! That made me have a lot more than I expected so the larger jars weren't sterilized like I would have liked, but they are clean. They will be stored in the refrigerator instead of on the shelf.
So end count was 7 half-pint jars and 3 pint jars full of fresh blueberry jelly❤️
The English Kitchen Garden
It's that time of the year when the soft fruit is starting to reach peak perfection. Our raspberries are building up a surplus (ie more than we can eat right off the canes) and our black currants and blackberries are producing enough that we want to make jelly.
We do something called "Trio Jelly", which is black currants, raspberries and blackberries, made into a jelly because of all those pips that get stuck in your teeth.
Cook the fruit, strain through a jelly bag, put one pound of sugar for every pint of juice and cook at a rolling boil until the setting point is reached.
Some people use a sugar thermometer to tell when the setting point is reached. We do it the old-fashioned way- put a small spoon full on a cold saucer.
This one is not ready.
This one is.
Guess who forgot she had a jar rack until after she’d put the jars in to process.
*sigh* What’s the point of having this stuff if you don’t use it, Tara?
Blackberry Jelly and Everything Else
Blackberry Jelly and Everything Else
Yesterday was my mom’s birthday. She’s been gone four years now. Cancer won the battle. And certain dates can be rougherthan the everyday. I spent the day keeping busy. Mostly sewing, running errands, and doing things at the costume shop. But I also treated myself to a pedicure. I’m sewing on an almost daily basis right now as a costumer for Newsies and so Mom is on my mind every time I sit down…
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