Making Uncle Steve's Grape Jelly in Appalachia
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Last week my brother Steve shared his grape harvest with me. Watch this video to see how Corie and I turned the bounty into jelly. I also point out wild Fox Grapes that grow in the mountains of Appalachia and share a few stories about them from Pap. This video really highlights the importance of putting up food in Appalachia and making sure the next generation continues the tradition.
Grape Jelly with low sugar pectin
5lbs of grapes processed to extract juice
You'll need 5 1/2 cups juice
3 1/2 cups sugar
Mix 1/4 cup sugar (from the 3 1/2 cups sugar) with sure jel low sugar pectin and stir into grape juice. Cook until mixture comes to a boil. Add rest of sugar; stir to fully dissolve sugar. Bring to a rolling boil and boil one minute. Ladle hot jelly into hot sterilized jars and seal. Can be water bath processed for 5 minutes if so desired.
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I love grape jelly and that looks delicious. And saying “be careful” is just a way of saying I love you.
It is a way of saying I love you-thank you Rick 🙂
It definitely is.
These are just like the grapes my grandparents had growing on a fence on their farm...in later years my grandma didn't make jelly anymore because her kids were all grown...I would eat those grapes until I would often get a tummy ache...
grape jelly and melted butter on toast are what dreams are made of.
🙂 Jelly toast is hard to beat!
Don't know which color is more beautiful - the violet or the grape jelly! I can imagine both are delicious.
First time I made cornbread in my skillet this morning! Came out pretty good..
Also took the strings off my sugar snap peas yesterday. I don't think a string could be found when I was finished.
You're a very good influence! 😄🍇🍀
Yay! That all sounds great Jane 🙂
Hello Jane,,, IM 66 IN KENTUCKY,,,ALL OLDER WOMEN ALL MY LIFE,,, KEPT ONE CAST IRON SKILLET THAT THEY ONLY MADE THEIR CORNBREAD IN ,,, I HAVE A 93 YEAR OLD NEIGHBOR SHE STILL MAKES CORNBREAD IN HER CAST IRON SKILLET AND ALWAYS TELLS STORIES OF HIDING THE SKILLET WHEN NOT IN USE TO KEEP SOMEONE FROM FRYING SOMETHING IN IT ,,, MY MOTHER GAVE ME MY GRANDMOTHERS GRISWOLD CAST IRON SKILLET ITS VERY OLD ,,I WILL SOON GIVE IT TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER, I ONLY HAVE TWO SONS ,,THEIR WIVES WONT USE IT,, MY GRANDDAUGHTER WILL ,IF SHE DOESNT USE IT SHE WILL CHERISH IT ,,,,♥️👵🏻
@@LB-eh5fz You sound just like Tipper! I think she also has one special skillet for her cornbread. I finally treated myself to one last year but haven't used it much until this past week. I don't know the first thing about seasoning a cast iron skillet and even less about cooking in one! Thank goodness I ran across the cornbread video from Celebrating Appalachia. On the other hand, I do have a very large and precious dutch oven that my mother gave me about 20 years ago. I was thrilled when she handed it to me as she used it to make pork butt potatoes and cabbage in it -- one of our favorites. Thank you for your reply - be well. 🐬
My grandparents in TN had plum trees that my grandmother would make wonderful jelly out of. That would have to be my favorite, then peach, apple and grape. But as long as it's homemade 😋 they are all my favorites.
Just watching this triggers memories so vivid that I can smell the aromas coming from Grandma's kitchen when she was making grape jelly back in the early 1960's. Thank you so much!
Its the best smell 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia - I picked six pints of blackberries en route to a job interview in 1982.
Made jam the next day, with only sugar added. Tasted harshly mettalic, inedible.
I wasted all those fresh plump berries.
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@@rethinkcps2116 sorry about that!
My mother lost her mother at birth & was raised by a aunt. She had 3 sisters & 1 brother. She was born in 1925. Times were hard then & she started making bread at age 12 and made 6 loaves a week. She did that for 78 years. I remember her making jams & jelly of every kind. We only needed 2-3 loaves a week and she gave away 3-4 loaves a week often with some jam or jelly. I remember us doing 60 jars of blackberry jam one July. Every teacher I had got a loaf a week. The Lord gave us more than we needed. Mom passed in 2020 at the age of 94. I sure do miss the fresh jam on on a hot slice of her bread. Thanks for jarring my memories.
What wonderful memories Mark-thank you for sharing them!!
Tipper, that jelly looks wonderful. There is nothing as satisfying as home made jelly. This has been a real treat to watch.
My favorite jelly just happens to be grape! Hint, Hint!
🙂 Thanks Miss Cindy!
Wife made grape jelly this week too, it taste good,I had some on my pancakes this morning.She made her's the same way.Thanks Tipper and Corie for sharing your grape jelly making expertise 🙂.Whose going to have bragging rights on the jelly, You or Granny. I'd say Granny probably 🙂.Have a Great Week Tipper.
You know it will be Granny LOL! Thank you Donald 🙂
I think my favorite jelly is probably fig, but I do love grape jelly. We had grape vines growing up and while we never made jelly - I think my mom felt like she'd made enough of it when she was a kid from their grape vines - we did pick the leaves early in the season to make stuffed grape leaves, and I loved eating the grapes right from the vine. We also had peach trees and fig trees and there is nothing like picking fruit from your tree and eating it right there in the yard!
My favorite jelly that we make is vanilla peach peel jelly. After it sets for a few weeks to a month when all the flavors meld together is when it tastes best. The flavor kinda reminds me of peaches 'n' cream. Great video. Thank you.
Enjoyed your video. I’ve always had a taste for homemade muscadine grape jelly. God bless you for sharing these videos focusing on the simple life. - Tennessee Smoky
You are so welcome!
Well said on smelling the sunshine when opening a jar of 'fresh' tomatoes in Winter. Mmm.
We were at our daughters house in SC this weekend at their new place. They have lots of “wild grapes”. Maybe they can make some jelly for the kids. Great video. Ty for sharing 😁
Another nice visit. Listening & watching you & Corrie working together is so heartwarming. I used to watch & help my mother can applesauce & jam. She made a fig chutney with walnuts that was unforgettable. And the candied figs!! My grandmother canned many things. I loved the watermelon rind pickles and jam & pineapple/pear preserves & 🍑 peaches & pears. You are so sentimental. I love it. My mother's mother made juice from the concord grapes was delicious. But I loved her baking. Her rolls were amazing & cheese pastries. She also canned baby grape leaves for her stuffed grape leaves that were gold. I am getting lost in memories. Thank you.
Grape jelly is my personal favorite. I have a large amount of Concord grapes on my property, and growing up we had concord grapes too. They make delicious juice too.
Your analogy of openung a jar of tomatoes in the winter and smelling summer & feeling the warm sun on your arms, was priceless. I have thought the exact same thing when I open a jar of my canned tomatoes. ❤🙏❤
Looks so yummy. Great job Tipper and Corey. My husband has a little kumquat tree we got from California. He moves it into the house every winter and baby's that thing. Last year it finally had enough fruit that I made kumquat marmalade. This year it is covered up in tiny green fruit too. 😋 I think they ripen around the holidays. Now, I need to find a grapevine 😄
Oh what a wonderful thing! I hope they all make it this year too 🙂
The figs are coming in at our old homeplace where my neice lives now. Fig preserves are my favorite. My sister has a dehydrator. She dries a lot of figs. They are like candy!
Fresh fig are my favorite! I bet home dried figs are delicious!
@@bconsilio3764 they really are!
Fig preserves are my favorite too. I’m having a hard time keeping them from freezing back in the winter here. They don’t freeze below ground just the bush.
@@stephenpickard3150 mom has lost a few due to freezing over the years. We live in the Piedmont area of NC so our winters can be fairly mild.
My sister in law lives in western Kentucky and hers do great. Just gets a little to cold here in S.E. Kentucky according to my extension agent.
Those are the biggest grapes I've seen on the vine, usually they're little grapes 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇
They were so pretty 🙂
Right! I wonder if wine grapes are usually the ones we see most? I wonder how old his vines are. Growing grapes is so intensive and amazing imo. To think some wine vines are 100s of years old
I've made tart cherry jelly the last couple of years. Always remember my mom and grandma making jelly. My wife had never made it so I figured it out. Don't lose that food mill, they don't make them like they used to that I can find. The one I got is a sorry excuse. Love to see your videos, my family comes from the Ashe County NC area.
OHHHH IM GONNA MAKE ME A JELLY SANDWICH,,I GOT SOME JELLIES FROM LOCAL MENNONITES GOOSEBERRY IS THE ONE ILL OPEN ,THIS WAS SO GOOD TO WATCH ,,✨❤️❤️✨
Thank you LB-I love jelly sandwiches 🙂
Grape jelly was the first kind I ever made in Jr High school home economics class. We used bottled grape juice and sealed the jars with wax. I like grape but will do a strawberry jam every couple of years now. That’s my favorite.
Aw, how sweet to be able to go get grapes from your brother's garden. That's such a cute sign he had. Jelly looks delicious! Aw, was Corie crying at the end? Your brother, Steve is still ok, isn't he? My favorite jelly has to be blackberry jam, seeds and all!💜 Love and Blessings!!🌸🌻🌺
Great stories about the mustache 🤣Oh boy does this bring back memories , even down to the “foldy sandwich” .. 1 of my favorite days of the year .. Momma turned her jars upside down too 👍
We have wild grapes we call Mustang grapes, they are very similar to the grapes you are processing and are very acidic, but make excellent jelly. I do the same process that you showed and its the best grape jelly ever. If I don’t have enough juice for a last batch, I’ll add apple juice and make a grape-apple jelly. I never thought to freeze extra, but I have added sugar and canned it for juice to drink.
My father-in-law's neighbor let me pick his grapes so I came on UA-cam to find a recipe. I've never made grape jelly so I'm excited to try your recipe 😋😁
I do love home canned grape jelly and blackberry jelly but
strawberry preserves are my favorite.
Matt loves strawberry too 🙂
My mother would make blackberry jelly that was just wonderful! Today I'm canning peach pie filling.
Your video brought to mind my great-grandmother's grape jelly - there was nothing like it. The only big difference about hers to yours was that she put a layer of wax on top of the jelly in the jar. Great memories. Thanks so much!
My grandmother always did a lot of canning. Her biscuits and pear preserves were the best I have ever eaten. Your video brought back memories of her working in her kitchen.
We call them wild grapes possum grapes in East Tennessee,and id love to have at jelly with some big ole cathead biscuits and butter,cold glass of milk!!! Mmmm
Sounds so good 🙂
Mother always made jelly, and we did pick a lot of wild grapes and raspberries in the woods near us. Mother used a jelly bag (old pillowcase) to strain her jelly, and she used Certo liquid pectin. If she couldn't find liquid pectin, she'd be in an awful snit. She used old baby food jars to put it in. After the jelly was in the jars, a layer of paraffin wax went on top, then the cap. You know that was a long time ago. It's a wonder we lived! That was life in the wild and woolly 1960's. So many things that we did back them would just curl your hair now. Thanks for another wonderful video, it amazes me how familiar a lot of things you do are so familiar to me.
I love this! I didn’t grow up learning to can…taught myself and I really want to try the wax method.
My Mom learned to make jelly from her Mom. My Mom used spreadable-cheese jars and used the wax on top!
Mom would let us chew on the wax. Everyone wanted our PB&J at lunchtime. We, to, got our mother's grape jelly in the 60's
I love your videos, and this one's no exception. I make a lot of jam--mostly strawberry and plum--but I have never made grape jelly, and I'm eager to try it. Your instructions in the video are so clear--thank you! You all are delightful, and I enjoy the virtual visits with you as much as I do the recipes. Best wishes.
I’m watching this video in late December and I can smell the fresh grapes cooking on the stove. Grape jelly is my favorite of all the fruits but I’m the only one in my family who will eat it. Everyone else loves homemade strawberry jam. I’ve recently started making strawberry freezer jam. I love listening to your stories and watching your videos. God bless
I like grape best with apple second. Then, I like watermelon jelly.
I've never had watermelon jelly! I bet it's good 🙂
Spent summers on our grandparents farm in southern Missouri. This brings back memmories of making muscadine and dewberry jelly for my grandparents.....hands stained purple from the fruit being squeezed throug the cheesecloth!
Dew berries are so good! Not many around here though.
I've only had peach jelly once and I savored that jar like it was gold! Lol
To me peach jelly is sunshine or summer in a jar!
Strawberry jam was my favourite growing up until my Mom made too much of a type of freezer jam.. it was pink instead of red and super sweet. That was amazing at 1st but eventually I got really sick of it. Now I don't eat Strawberry jaw... I love raspberry jam. Raspberry jam is naturally less sweet then Strawberry and it's just as tasty in my opinion.
It's been a long time since I had grape jelly and Blueberry jam... I'm Canadian 🙋♀️🇨🇦 and we only used fresh picked wild Blueberries to make jam with. So it always depended upon mother nature and how many Blueberries she gave each year. If there was a lot we had jam and pie, lol if not then pie was the priority..lol
There's absolutely nothing to compare with the flavour of wild fruits! Take wild Strawberries they are tiny in comparison to store bought berries..but man oh man the amount of flavour in 1 tiny Strawberry was more than all of the flavour in a giant store bought berry!
On a slightly different topic but similar.. I love broccoli.. raw steamed or cooked.. but there's a huge difference in taste between "organic" or natural/wild broccoli and the heads of store bought broccoli. They even look a little different.. the wild/natural/organic broccoli is sweeter less bitter overall and in my opinion the perfect way to start children eating it.. sort of like the stalk of the store bought heads..when you peel it cube it and cook it with the florets.. the stalks are sweeter milder in flavour and again the best bit to serve kids to get them to enjoy eating it.
Any fruits or vegetables that are wild or organic, homegrown will taste far superior to anything that you can buy in the grocery stores... just food for thought for anyone contemplating growing a small garden patch for the first time.. do it!! Always try it at least once
My parents ran a convenience store in VA with a kitchen where my mom cooked (famous for her fried chicken) and they sold vegetables and fruits my daddy grew. He used to sell styrofoam cups filled with scuppernongs on the counter by the cash register. A man came by one day and interviewed my dad and ate some of those grapes. He was a food writer whom I have since seen on Food Network's "Best Thing I Ever Ate." He was working on a book and my parents' store was included in the original book titled Southern Belly by John T. Edge. Later reprints don't include their story as the store is now closed. He described my mom as having auburn hair which she did not then nor has ever had auburn hair! We all got a kick out it...I went to the library where I live and checked it out. I have my own copy now.
I've made grape jelly with store-bought juice but never had grapes to make it from scratch!
How fun! So nice to be gifted fresh fruit. I’ve never had homegrown grapes or their jelly. I’m sure it’s delicious. My husband just planted two grapevines for us so in the next few years, I’ll get to taste it myself! Thanks again for another great peek into your world!
My favorite would be muscadine jelly, My favorite preserves would be pear, my mamma always got 1st place at the county fair with them.
Fox grapes grow wild here And Muscadines. Also get wild here. ,but the raccoons always get my Muscadines before I do. Muscadines have thick hull on them but there sweet. There a type of grape. Some people make muscadine wine. Out of em. I just like eating off the vine. I like figs too and my granny always had plums and apples. Trees around the house. Ok y'all take care
Me & my PaPaw would Pick Black Berry's & mostly he would Pick. The He would make Jelly. Every year until he was 80. It was the Best. 100%
What great memories you have 🙂
Great video! Brings back wonderful childhood memories, every year we would have a family outing with my aunt and her family to pick wild Mustang grapes for jelly. Mama and her sister would make the jelly at our house and I can remember them fussing over how much sugar to use, mama always wanted less and aunt Helen wanted more, not sure who actually won but in the end it always turned out delicious. Unfortunately over development has all but eliminated most of the wild grapes in my area over the years.
My dad grew grape vines on two big metal poles shaped like a T with 4 cables strung between them, like a big clothesline. He fertilized them with rabbit droppings. Worked great. We had lots of grapes every year.
Jars of sunshine! We had some good vines of concord grapes. We put up jelly every year when I was growing up. Mom always used paraffin to seal the tops. Cover the top with foil to keep the dust out.
This reminds me of when mama & me made grape jelly. Daddy had a really good grapevine arbor & it was usually full of grapes once it matured. We used sure gel too. When you said you "looked" the grapes, mama always said that especially with pinto beans & other stuff from the garden. This brought back sweet memories! I sure miss the goodness from the garden. Thanks y'all & God bless from chilly VA! 🍇 💗
you can't beat grape jelly for a pb &j but my mama's homemade strawberry jam...I can just eat that with a spoon.
Black raspberry jelly.. my grandma use to make this a sealed the jars with paraffin and wax paper
I could smell and taste Uncle Steve’s jelly from here in the foothills of NC. Loved this video and love to see the bond between you and Corie! The Lord has richly blessed you!
Brings back such memories. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
i could smell that,,,,made grape jelly last week,,,,,,,love it, and today is apple cider syrup, the house smells are amazing when cooking fruit , love to make three batches at a time, and its usually time to can something else, i always use quarts also
I could almost taste that jelly on a fresh biscuit with some butter. I’ve got the latter two but store bought jelly just would not have been the saMe so just sticking to butter n molasses.
I LOVE using my chinois for berry-type jellies! Right now I’m using mine to process elderberries!
I always make black berry jelly, it's something mom showed me how to do, It makes me think of her
I just discovered this channel a couple months ago, but it has quickly become one of my all time favorites. Keep up the good work, Tipper! What an enjoyable & informative channel this is!
Glad you enjoy it! 🙂
I love grape jelly. When I was a child, Mom would make grape jelly and grape juice concentrate every year. Your jelly looks absolutely beautiful!
Wild grapes, we would eat them why we where out playing
My grandparents had a peach tree that always had an abundant harvest. Grandma and Grandpa made lots of canned peach preserves, peach jam, and peach jelly. Us kids always looked forward to August, September, and October because that was canning season. When we helped, we always got to eat the foam as a treat.
Aside from all the tomatoes my parents put up, we had a wild grape vine that ran the length of one side of our property. I remember my mom making jelly and at that time, she poured paraffin on top of them rather than using lids. She also made crab apple jelly from the tree in our yard. It was such a pretty pale pink and I really loved the taste of it.
I'm on my way with a Pan of hot butter biscuits.
That would be the perfect accompaniment 🙂
We just made grape jam last night and it didn't set. I think we over boiled it. Disappointing. But we have more grapes that need to ripen so we'll get another shot at it.
You can alway use it as a sauce of sorts 🙂 I've done that with jelly that didn't set up before. Thanks for watching!
Jeff-I call those happy fails. We use the batches that don't set as syrup. We pour them on pancakes instead of maple syrup. REALLY, really delicious!!!
So enjoyed watching you make the jelly! I have a large bowl of figs ready to be made into preserves. So very satisfying to put up jams and jellies for the winter! Thank you for the demo! God bless
I watched your blackberry jam video.....I have blackberries I've been picking! I like the idea of giving as gifts. Sometimes I make a pie or two. Loved your video today.
I think jars of jelly or other things you put up make great gifts 🙂
So do you call lunch dinner and dinner supper? I’ve heard people say that before where I live in Texas but it’s not something I grew up with.
I do 🙂 Very common to call the noon day meal dinner and the late day meal supper in Appalachia-more so in days gone by than now though 🙂
Thank you. What a wonderful step by step video. And I love that the younger generation learns too! I have my mom's grape vines, and I made concord grape jam this year. I wish she was here to share it with me. And you are correct. The smell and the color were just beautiful.
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
I think that it's great that you have such a wonderful helper. My grandmother told me that her mother taught her how to cook and stuff. My grandmother came up from 04 through 20 30 40 ect. I remember that she said that when she and her family came here from Tennessee that they rode in a wagon and horses. It took several days. I remember my grandmother saying that when my grandfather wanted to go visit his family they would take off walking thru the woods he knew all of the short cuts there were few roads and no cars. I know back then people would invite you to stay over night or let you rest. It was such a wonderful time my father told me that an old country preacher came around in an old pickup and take them to church the truck was full so the kids stood on the running boards and rode to the church at the old brush arbor.
I miss my grandmother’s homemade grape jelly, rhubarb jelly, pear butter and apple butter! ❤️
There is nothing quite as nice as homemade grape jelly. Love it! 😋
I just made a pear peach jam with lime! De-lish!
Steve's grape jelly looks beautiful. Unfortunately for me I am allergic to grape juice & jelly. How strange that fresh grapes are fine.
My favorite jelly is raspberry, blackberry, or peach. Love it on warm biscuits.
Thank you for showing us your method of jelly making, and the harvesting.
My absolute favorite is BLACK RASPBERRY !!! I've never tasted any better !!!
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Love Grape jelly - Thank You for sharing
Thank you for this video. I’ve never canned anything before and you are teaching me a lot of useful things. 🙏🏽❤️PS: I Love grape jelly and Peach 🌻
I just love you ladies'. Thank you for sharing your specialties.
….🍇That Looks Absolutely Delicious ~ And Yes, Grape Jelly Is The Best ~ My Favourite Sandwich As A Child Was Grape Jelly, PeaNut Butter On White Bread ~ If I Was Extra Lucky I Got A 5 Cent Bag Of Potato Chips And A Coke~A~Cola ~ Thanks For Sharing🍇….
OML I use to pick the 'FOX GRAPES' in Hope Mills NC when I was a little girl. They are gone in my area back home now. I am so happy to find out they are still growing........in Appalachia.
Growing up on Chickamauga Lake, every year in late summer and into the fall, my sisters and I would go out wild grape, muscadine & scuppernong hunting. Those are some of my best memories…except for the dadgum cottonmouths.
Our mom would make jelly with them and that’s how I learned to love jelly smeared onto Mama’s buttermilk pancakes instead of syrup.
BTW, those are some really pretty grapes, ladies! 💯🇺🇸❣️😉
I'll have to try it on pancakes-that sounds really good 🙂
Oh gosh! You just threw me back 50 years! Grape jelly on pancakes...Y-u-m!!!
@@ohnoyce - To this very day, I eat buttermilk pancakes with only grape jelly & butter, or just butter alone. Makes my tongue want to slap-out the roof of my mouth. 😛😋
Makes me smile from ear to ear knowing my memories brought you back that far! 💯🇺🇸
God bless 👍🏻
Watch your videos. Enjoyed your making jelly. Reminds me of my childhood watching mom putting up jelly. Thanks for taking me to my childhood.
My mother made a lot of jelly. She squeezed her grape juice through a cloth strainer. She didn't always use the juice right away. Some of it she would can and use later for jelly and other deserts. I haven't been able to find the right kind of cloth. It was a loose woven cotton cloth but tighter than cheese cloth. I tried muslin but all I could squeeze through it was flavored water. No pulp would come through it all. I have never been a seamstress so know nothing about cloth. Any idea what it might have been?
We also strained milk through the same kind of cloth. Milk would go right through it but Mommy would put it inside a pot, pour in the cooked grapes or blackberries, gather the edges of the cloth together and twist into a ball of steaming hot fruit. The more she twisted the tighter the ball and the more juice and pulp would squeeze would ooze out until only the stems, hulls and seeds were left.
Mommy had a colander/strainer/ricer/China cap like you that she used to make jam and or jelly. Sometimes she would first run the hot fruit through the colander then the cloth. But those times she used the cloth as only a strainer. The juice that went through she made into jelly and what stayed in the cloth made jam. That jelly was much clearer than the other way and didn't seem to foam up as much. The jam she made that way was my absolute favorite. Nothing I have ever tried to make nor anything bought at a store even comes close.
Thanks Papaw! I don't know what kind of cloth that could have been, maybe someone else who does will chime in with an answer 🙂
HOMEMADE grape jelly and pear or peach preserves! I love the thin slices of pears and peaches in preserves. There is NO comparison of the homemade to a store bought grape jelly, especially when, like you did, they are run through a ricer until the skins are almost dry and you get the added flavor of the skin. My mother had a large grape arbor with at least a dozen beautiful vines growing so thickly that we kids and our 'vertically challenged' Mom could stand under them and pick the grapes in the shade. In the hot summers, we would build a playhouse under them and Mother would caution us "Don't break the vines. You'll make them bleed and they won't make enough grapes." She wouldn't trim or train them until the dead of winter "when the sap is down". I especially loved the thick skinned muscadines and we would always put up a run or two of muscadine jelly. I loved to pile the skimmed off foam on buttered light bread and eat it.
The grape’s your using are concord grapes. The easiest way I learned to make grape jelly was from my grandma, whose family came from Denmark. All you do is measure 3cups of grapes and 3 cups of Pure Cane sugar. Boil for 15 minutes, pour into the cone strainer run the wooden mallet round and round to get all the grape without the peels and seeds into a bowel. Put in hot jars and put the lids on tight. Concord grapes have there own NATURAL Pectin. No pkgs pectin required. You can make Moore than 3 cups at a time BUT YOU STILL NEED to boil 15min per cup. So if your using 9 cups of grapes, 9 cups of sugar you need to boil for 45 minutes at a. Slow rolling boil.
My grandmother Margaret had concord grape vines. She made the best grape jelly. 🍇 Such beautiful memories.
I live in Mississippi and I’ve never seen wild grapes that large. I picked a couple of clusters to see if the ones that are still green would ripen up. If I wait too long, the birds will get them. Ours are tiny compared yours. It’s mid August as I write this. I’m hoping to make wild grape jelly this year. We do have muscadines that grow wild, but they grow so high in the trees you can’t get them, which is why I grow my own. Enjoyed the video.
You need a juicer/steamer jelly pot!
I enjoyed this very much ! I like pretty much all jellies, but grape , BlackBerry is are my favorite ones...I like eating it like you ,piece of bread folded ....also sometimes on toast and with a little butter all mixed in .....thanks tipper ....God bless....🙏
Tipper that jelly looked like liquid jewels being poured in jars and I’m sure it tastes Lucious My favorite is strawberry jam but my dear friend in Louisiana gifts me mayhaw and plum and muscadine jelly and I enjoy all of it!!
Blueberry and raspberry have long been my favorites, probably because that's what grows up here. It's too cold for grapes.
Great job on the outro, Corie. Thanks for the video, Tipper!
Hi I'm new to your channel. Thank you for sharing, as you did a fantastic post! I know your home smelled magnificent while cooking down the 🍇. I just picked my Concord 🍇which are fairly new vines. I learned from my grandmother how to make jam at the age of 15 and think of her always. Granny was important to me, as she always made pies, cookies, goodies, dinner and the best hot cocoa and everything was made from scratch and delicious! I'm soon 66 years old and yes the memories we have are dear and special to our hearts! I know see her and other family members in Heaven.♥️🙏🍇👍
Grape jelly was the first jelly I ever made. We made it in 7th grade home economics class. We used bottled grape juice and sealed the tops of the jars with wax. That probably was 1970.
I saw Clifton Hicks had posted some pictures of wild grapes on youtube.
He called them scuppernongs and muscadines I think. What wonderful names!
All things wild and free are double delicious I think.
Love from the cold North of England (no wild grapes in this neck of the woods!)
Not wanting to step on toes, but I noticed your lids and seals, boiling away on the back of the stove, which I did the same for years. But now, the "official canning guide", says that the seals are made with a different type of sealant, and boiling and simmering could cause them to fail. Supposedly, just warming them in water, before it strikes a simmer is all that is needed to ensure safe cannon ng. I've had no issues with the adjustment, and everything seals properly. And I tip my jelly/jam jars also;)! Thanks for posting. Sounds like Katey has allergies:(. No fun. But you'd think as much as the twins are outdoors(just like my kids), it would never be an issue. My twins took dimetap all through their younger years, and even now, have allergy issues, once in a great while. Hope she's better... :).
I'm making muscadine jelly tomorrow pray it turns out. My favorite jelly is muscadines and blackberrie .
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Linda from Ct
I wonder how some of the leftover jelly would be over some ice cream
Yummy I'm sure 🙂
In addition to my grandparents ' peaches, we visited my great-grandparents (Gram and Granddad) every weekend. Gram was a little, old mountain woman who was born and raised in a hollow outside of Louisville. She, Grandad, and my grandpa moved to Arizona in 1916.
Gam grew up making biscuits every morning and homemade bread every other day. Granddad was a beekeeper as a hobby, and to provide fresh honey for the family. When we'd visit Gram and Granddad, Gram would make biscuits and slather it with fresh butter she got from one of the neighbors, then slather them in fresh honey. I especially loved the honey that was still in the comb.
I love peach, plum, muscadine and blackberry. We would pick wild plums and had fun, except for the huge thorns. We never put up grape jelly.
Finally making the juice today. I didn't think we were going to yield any grapes. Should drop in August here in SC, but here it is almost end of September.
I stopped boiling my jars years ago. Now I wash them well and rinse them and put them in my microwave oven. When my jelly starts coming to the second boil I turn the microwave on high for 2 minutes. I always have my heavy rubber gloves on over a pair of thick cotton gloves. That way I can pick up the hot jars without burning myself. I have about 10 batches of juice from our wild Texas Mustang grapes in the freezer. That way I can make jelly during the winter when we run out. Same thing for my plums and blackberries. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Mine is almost a duplicate of yours and I do put a tablespoon of unsalted butter in my juice when I first start cooking. It really does cut back the foaming.