This red currant jelly recipe starts with a pint of current juice (or more) and sugar. You don’t need commercial pectin. I sometimes add almond extract to switch up the flavor, but it’s good with or without. If you’d like a currant spread recipe that uses less sugar, see “Apple Currant Spread“. This recipe is…
Common blue violets (Viola sororia) are perennial wildflowers native to North America. These bright little plants are also useful for food and medicine.
Whether it’s traditional or low sugar, corn cob jelly adds a unique bit of sweetness to your table. Refrigerate or water bath can for longer storage.
Our rugosa roses produced a lovely array of hips this year, so we dried some and turned some into rose hip jelly. This rose hip jelly recipe is made with Pomona’s Universal Pectin, so it use less sugar than the other recipes I’ve seen. It’s also a small batch recipe, which helps if you don’t…
When we had a banner elderberry harvest, my friend, Tami, and I experimented with a variety of elderberry recipes. We made wine, syrup and elderberry jelly. One recipe is low sugar elderberry jelly, and the other is a traditional elderberry jelly made with Sure-Jell pectin.