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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Making Grape Jelly

We had another successful harvest and caught another raccoon.  That is 5 in 5 days!  We are hoping eventually the raccoons will stop coming but so far we keep trapping them.  We did pick a few more grapes so it is time to make some grape jelly.  Last year our jelly turned out pretty good and kept us supplied with Jelly for most of the year.  So this year we will be making a bigger batch of Jelly.  It takes two days to make jelly.  The first day you wash, de-stem the grapes (thanks George) and then crush the grapes.  Then you add some water and cook the grapes.  One the grapes are cooked you strain the juice into a container with a lid and set it in a cool area to sit overnight.  On day two you have to strain the juice again but this time we use a grape strainer and cheesecloth.  Then you add sugar, we are going to try a batch using stevia too, and cook it to a rolling boil.  After it is boiling add pectin and boil for another minute.  Now it is time to fill the jelly jars.  We made 16 half pints of jelly and we will be making more today!
We did have success with our stevia bread & butter pickles.  The first batch we made were awful but this batch was perfect and tasty too.  It is also the reason we want to try a batch of jelly using stevia instead of sugar.  Check back and see how all the jelly turned out!  It was a sweet day...literally!

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