Know any home made recipes for plum jelly?!
Know any home made recipes for plum jelly?
with sugar and sure gel
Answers:
I just use the recipe in the sure jel package for apple jelly. It works fine.
Beach Plum Jelly Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup green Beach plums
4 cups red Beach plums
Sugar
Instructions:
Beach plums grow close to the shore in thick bushes, 4 to 5 feet high. The plum, as it ripens, changes from green to pink to red and deep purple. The less ripe plums contain more pectin than the ripe, so include both in a proportion of approximately 1 cup green to 4 cups red. Beach Plum Jelly has a pleasing tartness. It can be served with meat and breakfast dishes.
Wash plums and remove stems. Put fruit in an enamel pot. Cover with water and bring to a boil.
Drain and discard water.
Return plums to the pot and add enough BOILING water to barely cover the plums. Cook until the fruit is soft, mashing them once or twice with a wooden spoon.
Turn the fruit and juice into a jelly bag made of several thicknesses of cheesecloth, suspended over a large bowl. Allow it to drain until no more juice drips through (overnight). DO NOT SQUEEZE bag or jelly will be clouded.
For each cup of juice, add 1 cup of sugar.
Boil on medium-high heat until the juice "sheets", that is, it will not run from a spoon but will drip in two drops that run together and fall from the spoon in a sheet.
Stop cooking immediately. Skim jelly.
Pour into sterile jelly jars. Seal with two layers of melted paraffin and lids.
Store in a cool dark place.