Buffalo Berry Jelly

"Buffalo berries make a highly prized jelly - part of the high marks go for the fact that they're atrocious to pick! If your fingers survive the long, needle sharp thorns, you've got a beautiful jelly in the making. If you pick your berries prior to a frost, you will not need to add pectin. If the fruit is overripe or has been through a hard frost, add 3 oz liquid pectin before boiling."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
4
Yields:
2 pints
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Wash, sort and stem berries.
  • Place in deep saucepan or jelly kettle and bring to a boil, stirring often.
  • Simmer for 10 minutes, then mash with a potato masher.
  • Simmer an additional 5 minutes.
  • Run through a food mill or jelly bag. You may have to mash juice out of the jelly bag with your hands to fully discharge -- there should be about 2 cups of milky juice.
  • Measure fruit juice and add boiling water through pulp to make a full two cups. Pour into deep pot, on medium-high.
  • Add sugar and stir well.
  • Add butter (reducing foaming) and bring to a boil. If adding pectin, do so once it has begun to boil.
  • Boil hard for 1 minute while stirring constantly.
  • Ladle into hot canning jars, apply lids and rings, and process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Jelly will turn darker, ranging from peach to orangey-red as it processes. It will not be clear, but resemble honey.

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  1. This is my first time playing with baffalo berry I still dont under stand if I need pectin or not I went to pick berries I hard to pick them, they did not fall off the trees when I shook them. We had a temp of 27 over night and it snowed on Sunday. I was told the berries are ripe when you can shake the tree and the berries fall off can some one please help me on my confusion
     
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