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Plum Jelly – vintage Loblaws recipe

Plum Jelly - vintage Loblaws recipe

Course: Side Dish
Servings: 42 oz.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups plum juice
  • 4 cups sugar
  • 1 box fruit pectin powdered
  • 3/4 cup cold water

Instructions

  • To Prepare the Juice: Crush fully ripe plums. (Do not peel or pit). Add 3/4 cup of water, bring to a boil, simmer, covered, 10 minutes. Place in jelly cloth or bag; squeeze out juice. Measure 3 cups into very large saucepan.
  • To make the jelly: Measure sugar; set aside. Place saucepan holding juice over high heat. Add powdered fruit pectin; stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil; boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly.
  • Remove from heat, skim, pour quickly into glasses. Seal at once.

Notes

*note recipe indicates using Paraffin to seal the jars. That is an outdated way of canning/ preserving. I have purposely left out processing time to make the jelly "shelf stable". Instead I would suggest storing the jelly in the refrigerator.
 

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Cherries, cherries & more cherries

One of the things about being in a CSA I that it is either feast or famine. Case in point- 5 lbs of cherries. What to do with said cherries? Make a first attempt at a Jelly.

One of the problems with cherries are the pits. Our juicer (aka my shortcut machine) doesn’t deal with the pits very well. Even if it claims it does, it doesn’t.

So I present some in progress shots- aka depitting of doom.

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