Famous Highbush Cranberry Jelly

"A great jelly recipe from ages ago."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
6
Yields:
8 cups
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ingredients

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directions

  • Bring the berries and water to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Crush the berries or put through a food mill.
  • Strain the juice in a cheesecloth-lined sieve.
  • Add any additional water if need to bring the juice up to 5 cups.
  • Bring the juice and sugar up to a boil.
  • Add the margarine, then the liquid pectin.
  • Bring back to a boil, stirring constantly boil hard for 1 minute.
  • Remove from heat.
  • Skim foam from surface and pour into sterile pint jars and seal.
  • Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.
  • NOTE: Highbush cranberries are a fruit of the honeysuckle, and completely different fruit than the lowbush or commercial cranberry.
  • Highbush cranberries grow on a shrub with pointed leaves whereas cranberries grow on a vine with oval leaves.
  • Highbush cranberries have a single seed, which needs to be removed.
  • If you have ever smelled something reminiscent of stinky socks on a stroll through the bush, you are likely very close to a good patch of highbush cranberries.
  • The seeded pulp of the highbush cranberry can be used interchangeably with the pulp of the regular cranberry in any recipe.

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  1. You neglected to mention that the jelly also smells like dirty socks and it tastes awful! From now on the birds can have them. (The recipe worked well as the jelly set and was fine, just can't get past the smell of it)
     
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