Crabapple Jelly

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 5 gallons crabapples
• 1 -2 kg sugar
• cheesecloth

Recipe

• 1 wash your crab apples to remove critters and any dirt.
• 2 throw out any rotten or bad ones, remove leaves and any woody stuff.
• 3 but leave them whole no need to remove centers etc -- (waste of time).
• 4 put in large pot 2/3 full otherwise it will boil over.
• 5 fill pot till all the apples float.
• 6 heat on med. heat till boiling, once they boil cook for 2-3 hours.
• 7 strain the mixture through cheese cloth keeping the liquid, thats gonna be our jelly.
• 8 if you want you can make crabapple cheese with the solids ( but were here to make jelly).
• 9 measure the liquid as best you can for every 1 l of liquid you will need 1 kg of sugar.
• 10 add sugar to liquid in a pot, and stir till boiling then reduce heat but keep it low rolling boil for about 10-15 minute.
• 11 then you can reduce heat to low.
• 12 on a small plate take your stir stick or wooden spoon and drizzel a few drops of the liquid allowing it to cool. keep doing this till it jells.
• 13 when it jells you are ready to start canning (see pic's).