Jelly Recipe | Living in Natures Love

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP – Living in Natures Love Lifestyles @insideawareness.com

Dandelion Jelly

Stage One

Ingredients:

2 cups of dandelion flower petals with green head pinched off
4 cups water
2 tablespoons of vinegar

Pick flowers, rinse in sink of cold water and 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Rinse and pat dry. Place in soup pot and cover with 4 cups of water. Bring to boil and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Cool and place in fridge overnight (up to 24 hours).

Stage Two

Ingredients:

4 cups of flower infused liquid
Sugar or honey following pectin instructions (for firmer jelly use higher amount of sugar)
2 tablespoons of lemon
1 pkg of Pectin

Strain dandelion flowers out of liquid and press flowers to get the most of your infusion. Place flowers in compost and heat infusion. If you are using sugar add water to bring liquid up to 4 cups.

Use your pectin instructions for amounts – Each brand has a different measurement ratio

Measuring liquid using honey instead of sugar:

If you are using honey, subtract the amount of infused liquid as honey becomes a part of the total amount of liquid. For every cup of sugar you would use or you see listed in a recipe, use 3/4 cups of honey. For example, if you are using 1- 1/3 cups of honey, you would use 2 – 3/4 cups of infused water to make four cups of liquid.

Steam Mason Jars

Remember to put your jars on to steam along with lids while jam is heating to thicken. I used smallest sized mason jars to enjoy as testers. It filled 6 – 8 (1-4 cup size).

Instructions:

Add lemon & pectin to infusion and bring to boil. Add sugar to dissolve and bring back to a boil. Reduce heat to a soft rolling until ingredients begins to thicken. Skim off thicken liquid leaving the clean amber liquid to pour into your clean heated jars.

Once jars are filled leaving small space between jam and top of jar, cover with mason lid and lightly screw on rim. Set aside and listen for the lids to knock as they seal. Once the mason lid is sealed screw rim tighter.

Leave jam to set and enjoy!

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