Mixed Jelly Recipe – Raspberry Currant Jelly

Raspberry currant jelly recipe ingredients:

• 700 grams red currants
• 300 grams raspberries
• 1 pouch liquid fruit pectin
• 500 grams sugar

Mixed jelly recipe instruction:

Clean fruits from the stalks, wash them good and place them in the saucepan.

Pour the sugar over fruits in the saucepan and cook the jelly in low heat to boil for about 25 minutes, or till you get desired density (stirring it all the time).

Stir the pectin in the raspberry currant mixture and remove it from heat.

Pour hot fruit jelly in the sterilized and warm jelly jars, cool them and seal them in the end.

Store the currant raspberry jelly in cool and dark place.

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Easy Citrus Jam – Mixed Orange and Grapefruit Jam Recipe

Easy citrus jam recipe ingredients:

• 2 red grapefruits
• 3 red oranges
• 650 ml grapefruit juice
• 1 kilogram sugar

Mixed orange and grapefruit jam recipe instruction:

Peel the grapefruits and oranges, squeeze juice from them gently and chop them in small pieces.

Cook grapefruit juice (with previously squeezed juice) and sugar to boil, stir it all the way and add pieces of fruits in it. Cook it for about 25 minutes.

Pour grapefruit orange jam in prepared warm jars and seal them.

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Gourmet Preserves Recipe – Violet Flower Preserves Recipe

Violet flower preserves recipe ingredients:

• 250 grams violet petals (buy them in the store for edible flowers)
• 750 grams sugar
• 2,1 cups water
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Homemade gourmet preserves recipe instruction:

Chop up violet petals with a sharp knife.

Pour sugar into water to boil. Add violet petals in boiling sugar and lemon juice, to keep beautiful violet color. Stir it all the time and cook it for about 20 minutes on the low heat or cook until thick.

Pour your violet preserves in warm, clean and sterilize jars and seal them.

Diabetic Jelly Recipe – Homemade Black Raspberry Jelly Recipe

Homemade black raspberry jelly recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams black raspberries
• Sweetener for diabetics (substitute for 500 grams of sugar)
• Juice from 1/2 squeezed lemon
• 1 pouch liquid fruit pectin

Diabetic jelly recipe instruction:

Clean and wash black raspberries and squeeze them gently with a hands or with food processor (not strain). Pour fruits in the saucepan, add sweetener and lemon juice in it, and cook it for about 10 minutes to boil (stir it frequently). Remove it from heat and stir pectin in it.

Pour hot black raspberry jelly in the warm, sterilized jars and seal them.

You can replace pectin with 5 grams of agar-agar (stir agar-agar in some water and stir that in finished jelly).

This sugar free jelly recipe you can use to make strawberry, plum, blueberry or apple jelly recipe.

Homemade Gourmet Jam – Sour Cherry Jam Recipe

Homemade sour cherry jam recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram sour cherries
• 500 grams sugar

Homemade gourmet jam recipe instruction:

Wash the sour cherries, remove the pits from them and pour sugar on the cherries, in medium saucepan. Cover the saucepan and let it in refrigerator over night.

Next day, put the saucepan on the heat in moderate temperature, stiring it frequently, till it becomes thick (when thick drops falling off the spoon).

Pour the hot sour cherry jam in the warm and sterilized glass canning jars and cover them with a blanket, till the next day.

Paste a canning jar labels on the jars and store them in the cool place.

Mixed Fruit Jelly Recipe – Strawberry, Sweet Cherry, Sour Cherry and Blackberry Jelly Recipe

Strawberry, sweet cherry, sour cherry and blackberry jelly recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams sugar
• 250 grams strawberries
• 250 grams blackberries
• 250 grams sweet cherries
• 250 grams sour cherries
• 1 pouch (3 ounces) liquid fruit pectin

Mixed fruit jelly recipe instruction:

Strain the fruits through a fine sieve, pour sugar on it and cook it in the medium size saucepan to become thick (at least 30 minutes to boil). Stir it frequently. On the end, add liquid fruit pectin in the saucepan, stir the jelly and remove it from the heat.

Sterilize jelly jars in the oven on 120°C for about 30 minutes.

Pour your mixed fruit jelly in the sterilized jars, seal them and return jars in the warm oven on 80°C for 10 minutes more. Turn off the oven and leave jars in it to cool together with the oven over night.

Store your mixed fruit jelly in the cool and dark place. You can experiment with a different kind of fruits to make a different kind of mixed fruit jellies.

The Difference Between Jams and Jellies, Marmalade, Preserves, Compote and Syrup Recipes

The difference between them comes in the form that fruit takes.

How to make jam?

Jams are made by boiling fruit and sugar to a thick consistency and does have fruit bits.

How to make jelly?

Jellies are made by boiling sugar, the juice of fruit and with gelatin or pectin, and does not have fruit bits.

How to make marmalade?

Marmalade is a clear sweetened jelly, sometimes with fruit rind and without fruit bits.

How to make preserves?

Fruit Preserves – fruit made into jams or jellies and cooked whole or in large pieces, so as to keep its shape.

How to make syrup?

Fruit Syrup is a thick sticky solution of sugar and concentrated juice of a fruit.

What is compote?

Fruit Compote is a dessert of fruit cooked in syrup.

Homemade Lemon Jelly Recipe

Homemade lemon jelly recipe ingredients:

• 6 lemons
• 1 liters water
• 1 kilograms sugar
• 1 deciliter lemon liqueur
• 1 pouch (3 ounces) liquid fruit pectin

Making jelly instruction:

Wash lemons and slice it into thin strips (together with a rind) in large saucepan. Pour cold water over lemons and let them in the water for 6 hours.

Put lemons with water to boil, cover it and remove it from heat for 10 minutes. After that, return mixture to the heat for 10 minutes more, remove from heat and immediately add liqueur and pectin in it (stir it good).

While it’s hot, pour your homemade jelly into hot and sterilized jars, cover with lids and store in cool and dark place.

Easy Orange Marmalade Recipe

Easy orange marmalade recipe ingredients:

• 700 grams oranges
• 2 lemons
• 500 grams sugar
• 8 cups water

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How to make orange marmalade:

Wash oranges and lemons, peel them and cut them (fruits and fruit skin) into fine pieces.

Put fruits in the pot, pour water over oranges and lemons and let them stand for 24 hours.

Cook them for 30 minutes and let them stand for 24 hours more.

Add sugar in oranges and cook them again for 1 hour.

Warm up the jars in the oven in 100°C for 10-15 minutes to sterilize.

Pour hot marmalade in warm marmalade jars and close them hermetically. Cover the jars with blanket and let them stand till next day. Keep jars in cold and dark place. This orange marmalade will thicken after few hours.