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countrygirl
Farmgirl in Training
48 Posts
Brenda
Western Mountains
Maine
USA
48 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 31 2007 : 4:08:35 PM
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Recipe used from Ball Blue Book of preserving
Crab apple jelly
4 cups crab apple juice (about 3 pounds)
4 cups of sugar
To prepare juice:Follow instructions for juice jelly
To make jelly:put crab apple juice in a large saucepan
add sugar,stirring until dissolved.Bring to a boil over
high heat,stirring constantly.Cook to gelling point or
until jelly sheets from a spoon.Remove from heat
Skim foam if neccessary,ladle hot jelly into hot jars
leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Adjust two-piece caps.
process 10 minutes in a boiling water canner.
yeild:about 6 half pints
This was the first step I just washed the crab apples
Here are the apples cooking
straining the crab apples
crab apple juice is boiling
crab apples getting ready to come out of canner
final result it came out great I did a double batch and got 10 jars..
Hope you enjoyed it coutrygirl
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Crab apple jelly recipe and pictures
