Home made petrin makes jelly

[fletamae]

Gather green apples cut into quarter, peeling, seed together.Add enought water and cook
slowly untill the apple mixture is mush like apple sauce. place apple mixture in a strainer and let drain for 24 hours. the juice can be used to make jell.
combine 2 cups fruit of choice, 2 cups green apple petrin and two cups sugar. cook until this mixture reaches 221 degrees. pour in jars and seal you must stire to keep from burning.
I made straw berry jam this way and I grew tired of stiring so I put the mixture in a bowl and cooked in the microwave for about 7 minutes. no stiring or burning. You can test your jell by putting a spoon in jell mixture and let it drip off spoon. if it comes off in a sheet it is Jell.

 

[me&thegals]

Wow--thanks!

 

[patandchickens]

You can also can the apple pectin (just as you would if it were a 'real' preserve) and use it later to make any kind of fruit jam/preserve/whatever, even if you just have a small amount of fruit. Kind of handy, esp. if you like making very small amounts of jams.

Recipe is somewhere else on this site, I believe maybe on Shellie's crabapple thread (?).

Pat

 

[fletamae]

I knew you could do the thing with crab apples but I don't have crab apples. My neighbor went to California and told me I could have her apples so I picked a few and did a google search for the recipe . I wanted to try this just to see if I could but anyone who makes jelly knows how high petrin is now so it would be worth the effort to do this if you have a family and make jelly.
I really could buy all the jelly I could or should eat but when I had children at home I made jelly every summer with what ever fruit I had.
The Inter net is a wonderful store house of information.

 

[patandchickens]

I knew you could do the thing with crab apples but I don't have crab apples.

I've actually never done it with crabapples myself -- it works just great with green (like as in, underripe) regular apples. If a person thins their crop, or picks up the unripe windfall after a storm before the bugs get to it, that works well.

I really could buy all the jelly I could or should eat

LOL, isn't that the truth - but I just love making jam and jelly and marmalade and stuff like that. It's a neat process and the result is so pretty So I look at it as getting ahead on my Christmas gift list

Pat