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Jelly is simple to make from fruit juice, sugar and pectin. If you can boil water, you can make homemade jelly! If you've been looking for an easy to follow jelly recipe, read on to learn how to make jelly.
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How to Make Jelly & Jam : Prepare Fruit For Jelly
This video describes the difference between jam and jelly, and then demonstrates how to prepare fruit for jelly. jam includes pieces of fruit, but jelly is made with only fruit juice. The fruit is cooked with water, then pressed to extract the juice. In general, you'll need one cup of water for every two pounds of fruit, but the exact proportions will vary with the fruit.
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Introduction
You can make jelly from commercial fruit juice, fresh fruit juice, or reconstituted frozen fruit juice. You'll need to add sugar and pectin, and in some cases an acid like lemon juice. Although it is possible to make jellies from some fruits without added pectin, it can be tricky to get the right consistency. -
Step 1: What You Need to Make Jelly
Each fruit requires a specific proportion of fruit, pectin, and sugar. These recipes all use powdered pectin, which usually has citric acid included to aid in jelling.
- Apple: 3 cups apple juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 2 ½ cups sugar
- Blackberries: 3 cups blackberry juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 3 cups sugar
- Cherry Jelly: 3½ cups cherry juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 4½ cups sugar
- Crabapple: 3 cups apple juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 3 cups sugar
- Gooseberries: 3 cups gooseberry juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 3 cups sugar
- Grape Jelly: 5 cups grape juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 7 cups sugar
- Orange Jelly: 4 cups orange juice, 4½ cups sugar,1 box powdered pectin
- Plum Jelly: 5 cups plum juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 7 cups sugar
- Strawberry Jelly: 3½ cups strawberry juice, 1 package powdered pectin, 4½ cups sugar
Step 2: How to Make Jelly
- Pour fruit juice into a pot.
- Add pectin and stir until combined.
- Place pot on high heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Add sugar and return to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Boil for one minute.
- Remove from heat and pour into sterilized jars and seal.
- Refrigerate or process in a boiling water canner.
Step 3: Making Jelly Without Sugar
Mix 2 packages (2 tablespoons) unflavored gelatin with one quart of fruit juice, and bring to a boil. Boil for one minute, and remove from heat. Add artificial sweetener, if desired, after removing the gelatin mixture from the heat. If you add artificial sweetener, you cannot process the jelly in a water bath canner, as the artificial sweetener can develop an off taste if heated.About this page
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