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Root Beer Jelly
"One of those unique recipes from a 1935 cook book."
photo by P.Q. Butterfat
- Ready In:
- 13mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
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2 pints
ingredients
directions
- Combine all ingredients except pectin.
- Heat to boiling stirring to dissolve sugar.
- Add pectin.
- Stir constantly to bring to a boil and boil hard for 30 seconds.
- Ladle into clean hot jars and process for 5 minutes in a boiling water bath canner.
- *Note-this came out of a 1935 cookbook and there was no processing time-just seal.
- Go with the 5 minutes folks.
- Also, you can use cola or cream soda if you like-they work best. Maybe even Dr. Pepper!
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Reviews
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As strange as this recipe may sound, my curiousity overcame me, and I had to try it. My whole family loves this jelly. It is great put on waffles, or on PBJ sandwiches. Try it! It's great! -
I was making fruit jam when I came across this recipe. I just had to try it. It came out wonderful. I am planning to make several batches of this recipe, the candy apple jelly recipe and the banana marmilade recipe to give to friends for christmas with a half gallon of ice cream. -
This is a really great recipe. My batch only ended up making 1 1/2 pints on my first try, but I will definately try again. -
The first time I made this exactly according to the recipe, and it wasn't quite strong enough for my taste, but I didn't have any rootbeer extract, so ever since I've just put in an entire 12oz bottle of pop (minus one sip for the cook) and left out the 1/2 cup of water. The color and flavor are stronger that way. I've made this recipe several times recently with different kinds of pop; rootbeer, orange cream, and grape. I think the grape is my favorite so far. Tip, use the liquid pectin as stated in the recipe. Once, I was out of liquid pectin, and tried to make a batch of orange cream jelly with this recipe and a package of powdered pectin. I got a very liquidy, very sweet syrup. Great for italian sodas, but if you want jelly, use liquid pectin.
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I was quite interested so, I made this and we LOVE it! I also added a teaspoon of root beer extract to "punch" up the root beer flavour, quite tasty! My next project is "orange cream"soda jelly.
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Tweaks
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When I was in prison I made root beer jelly with a bottle of A&W Root Beer, 20 single servings packets of sugar, a packgage of Root Beer Barrels (to add additional sugar because sugar can be difficult to get) and 6 tablespoons of psyllium fiber powder. I made it quite similar to other directions listed here, but I had to use an immersion heater in an ice chest to boil the water for the 10 minute bath. I was so amazed by my experiment, there's just something about root beer and peanut butter... I can't believe it's a real thing, not just something a bored inmate came up with! -
I enjoyed making this. I tried it using Dr. Pepper. I used the whole can of soda and a pkg. of Certo instead of water and it gelled out nicely. My only problem was convincing my conservative friends to actually try it. Once I brought it out they all sampled it on a cracker and were fine with it, no oohs and ahhs though. Upon surveying them, they all seem willing to try the orange creme once I make that. I'd like to make a Blackberry Vernors also.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Diana Adcock
Geneseo, Illinois
