Welcome to new follower Chrissie from chrissiecrafts.blogspot.co.uk She's a great embroiderer.
A friend of mine has a grape vine in her garden and it has done very well this year and has had more fruit than she could cope with and I was invited round to collect as much as I wanted, which was very kind of her. I took a small bucket with me and filled it twice and there was still loads left on the vine.
I took them all off their stalks and froze the fruit until I was ready to use them.
Yesterday I took the grapes out of the freezer and filled two non-stick pans. I let them defrost over night and this morning, after L left for school, I crushed the grapes (no I didn't take my socks off) with the potato masher and then cooked them. The juice was quite sour as there were quite few green gapes but the black ones were sweet. At this point I'd not added any water as the grapes were very juicy. After the grapes were cooked I strained off the juice in to a big pan and cooked up the pulp again in the non-stick pan. Strained it again into the big pan and added the sugar.
The colour is a lovely rich purply red and whilst it was bubbling away the house filled with an amazing aroma. When it was eventually ready I filled 6 and 1/2 jars.
I gave three jars to my friend with the grape vine.
The jam is very tasty and one I might make again next year. I have some oranges in the freezer waiting to be made into marmalade but I've no room to store it yet.
Jam butties for tea anyone?
Carolx
Yum, my grandma used to make grape jelly with grapes from a vine outside her house...your pics make my mouth water! Chrissie x
ReplyDeleteI've not made this before, but it tastes quite nice
DeleteCarolx
I've never heard of grape jelly before. I just ate my way along our vine. Perhaps I'll have a go at jam next year.
ReplyDeleteLove from Mum
xx
Me neither. I wish our vine would produce fruit,
DeleteCarolx
Count me in!!
ReplyDeleteJane x
Would you like crusts on or off?
DeleteCarolx