I am falling way behind in my recipes but I am still going. Ashlee told me that she wanted to make jelly again. The first thing we ever did together, just the two of us, while I was still dating her dad was make fig jam from the tree I had while I lived in Marion.
So we settled on Peach jelly. David doesn't like peaches but that is good, then it will just be for us. I have a ton of pectin left from making the fig jam so we used Sure.Jell for less or no sugar recipes. I copied and pasted the recipe from the website below the jump.
Six pounds of peaches at $0.88 per pound
I cooked the peaches with a little water for a while. they were slow to cook and there wasn't really a whole lot of juice coming out of them, until I reread the instructions. I guess I could have put the peaches through a food processor first but a potato masher worked pretty well to get the juices started.
To get three layers if Cheese cloth I put them one inside another three times then tied a knot in the bottom. I then stretched it over a bowl like this.
The we figured out how to hang the bag by closing it in the microwave door. (Shhhh! Don't tell David we did that.) Then we were too impatient to wait for four cups of juice to just drip out so we had to help it out a little.
Then we added the pectin and sugar.
A little butter to keep the foam down.
The rest of the sugar.
Then finally, a full rolling boil,
Processing the jars, it only made three full and one small one went straight into the fridge for immediate sampling.
The final product set perfectly and I tried it the next day.
My verdict
Delicious, I will definitely make it again.
