After the jam making our confidence was slightly elevated, oh hell, for that matter we felt like we could do anything. So we decided to try making jelly.
We had apples and pears. We boiled apples with a pear thrown in for a little additional flavor. Pureed them, filtered the juice out, dumped it in a pot with sugar and pectin.
There were some slight chunks of pear floating around, but we weren't to worried about that.
We did encounter a couple problems though....
Foam.
Jams and jelly like to foam up when boiling. I learned later a pat of butter in the goo will stop the evil foam. On the jam it wasn't a big deal, since the jam is chunky anyway.
With the jelly though...the foam floated to the top. The bottom is so pretty. Clear pinkish color with a few pear flecks floating around...until the top...the foam...It set with the foam on top. It's quite ugly...but so appley sweet.
That was last year...this year I tried apple jelly again...that disaster coming soon....
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