Paradise Jelly Recipes

PARADISE JELLY

Steps:

• Wash fruit and remove stems and blossom ends from apples and quinces.
• Cut in quarters, Cover with cold water and cook until tender.
• Wash cranberries and cook in 1 quart water until tender.
• Pour cooked fruit into a jelly bag and let drain into a bowl overnight.
• Discard pulp, measure liquid and add an equal amount of sugar, cup for cup, and boil until the jelly sheets off the spoon (about ten minutes).
• Skim, pour into sterilized jelly glasses and seal.

PARADISE PEAR JAM

Steps:

• Remove rinds from orange and lemon in quarters; discard about half the white part of rinds.
• (scrape off with a spoon) Slice rinds thinly.
• Chop orange and lemon, and discard seeds.
• Peel, core and grind pears.
• Combine all the fruits, including cherries and pineapple and its juice.
• Measure 4 1/2 cups of fruit into a large pan.
• Stir pectin into fruit.
• Place over high heat, stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil.
• At once stir in sugar.
• Bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat and skim.
• Stir and skim for 5 minutes to cool slightly, and prevent floating fruit.
• Ladle quickly into jars.
• Seal.

PARADISE JELLY

Steps:

• The apples and quince must be washed, the stem and blossom ends scooped out, and each one quartered.
• Remove any bruises to clean flesh.
• Pick over the cranberries, discarding any less than perfect. Place all in non aluminum pot and barely cover with water Boil until they are quite soft. Strain through jelly bag.
• Slice vanilla beans once lengthwise, and place in clean pot. Add strained liquid and boil gently for 12 minutes.
• Set beans aside. Measure juice, using 1 cup juice to 1 cup sugar, and cooking no more than 4 cups at a time. Place in clean pot. Boil until jelly sheets from spoon.
• Pour into 1/2 pint sterilized jars and seal.
• Process 5 minutes in boiling bath.
• NOTE: Cheat if you like, and add more water to the fruit after the first straining.
• Boil and strain that, combine with the first liquid and continue as directed.
• There's so much pectin in the fruit you can get away with it. Of course if you're going for the top prize at the fair, you might want to forego that this time. Use the vanilla beans in the water you boil for your next few pitchers of herbal iced tea.
• Recipe By : DDMmom