Crabapple Hot Pepper Jelly
photo by Deb Wolf
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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6 Half Pints
ingredients
- 2 lbs crabapples
- 1 1⁄2 cups water
- red wine vinegar
- 3 3⁄4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup green bell pepper
- 1⁄3 cup hot pepper (mix and match hot peppers for color and preferred degree of heat)
directions
- In a Dutch oven, combine crabapples with water.
- Cover and bring slowly to simmer.
- Cook until crabapples are very soft.
- Pour into a colander lined with a square of dampened cheesecloth and placed over a deep bowl.
- Weight down with a saucer and heavy can.
- Let stand until dripping stops.
- Discard pulp.
- Pour collected juice into a liquid measure.
- Add enough vinegar to make 3 cups.
- Combine in a saucepan with sugar.
- Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Add peppers, then boil briskly for 8 to 10 minutes or until set.
- Stir for 7 minutes to prevent floating peppers.
- Pour jelly into hot, sterilized 8-ounce canning jars.
- Seal with two-piece canning lids.
- Let cool, then refrigerate.
- For long-term unrefrigerated storage, process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes immediately after sealing jars.
- NOTE: To test for set, remove pan from heat.
- Dip a cold metal spoon into the liquid and hold well above the steam.
- Turn spoon sideways and let liquid run off.
- When it forms two drops that run together and drip from edge of spoon, jelling point has been reached.
Questions & Replies
Reviews
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A very easy and dependable recipe, which I have made 3 times (so far). I used apples thinned from our trees in the spring. I didn't have cheesecloth, so I lined my strainer with several overlapping dampened coffee filters and left it to drip for 4 hours. I found it took longer than stated to reach a set, then realized that I should have started the timing when it foamed up and the entire surface was covered with lots of tiny bubbles with many larger ones bubbling through. When timed from that point it took 20 minutes. I didn't have red wine vinegar the first time I made it, so I successfully substituted apple cider vinegar. However, I have since made it with red wine vinegar and like the flavor and color much more made with red wine vinegar. It went from a good jelly to an outstanding jelly. To suspend the pepper pieces, ater I took it off heat, I stirred it every minute or so for 10 minutes.
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I have now made this two years in a row and have requests from friends for more.... great recipe! I found that the instructions were a bit vague regarding the amount of red wine vinegar so I have used a 2:1 ratio.... 2 cups strained crab apple juice to 1 cup red wine vinegar. I also had to "boil briskly" for a longer period - ended up about 25 minutes. To make the straining even easier... I simmered the crab apples for an hour and then use a wisk on them to break them up. My thanks to Molly for the fabulous recipe.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Molly53
United States