Homemade Jelly Preserves Recipe – White Grape Jelly Recipe

White grape jelly recipe ingredients:

• White grapes
• Sugar
• 1 lemon

Homemade jelly preserves recipe:

Wash the grapes, clean it from stalks, remove grape seeds (press it) and cook it to fall apart. Strain it through a fine strainer.

Measure the grape juice that you got and in every liter of juice, add 350 grams of sugar and lemon juice.

Cook the grape juice with sugar and lemon, till sugar melts and mixture become thick (about 30 minutes), and stir it occasionally.

Remove foam from surface of the grape jelly preserves with a spoon, pour the hot jelly in the clean warm jars and seal them.

Homemade Apple Rosemary Jelly Recipe

Apple rosemary jelly recipe ingredients:

• 2 1/2 kilograms apples
• 5-6 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves
• 3 cups water
• 1 1/4 cups white vinegar
• Sugar
• 9-10 drops green food color

Homemade jelly recipe instruction:

Wash apples, remove a core from them and chop them in small pieces.

Put the chopped apples in the saucepan, add half of rosemary leaves, pour water over that and cook it in low temperature to boil. Continue to cook it, till pieces of apples fall apart for about 30 minutes.

Pour vinegar in boiling apples and keep cooking it for 5 minutes more.

Hook up a fine strainer or clean gauze for a deep pot, strain the apple jelly through it and let it strain over night.

Add 800 grams of sugar for every 4 cups of strained jelly juice that you got (measure it first), cook it in low temperature to boil and stir it periodically. Cook it to boil for 15 minutes.

Remove foam from the surface of the jelly with a spoon, add rest of the rosemary leaves and food color in it, remove it from the heat and give it a good stir.

Pour hot apple rosemary jelly in clean and warm jelly jars and seal them.

In my opinion, this is one of the best gourmet jelly preserves and you should certainly try to make it.

Jelly Jam Recipe – Walnut Fig Jelly Recipe

Walnut fig jelly recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram fresh figs
• 1 lemon
• 15 grams ground walnuts
• 50 grams chopped walnuts
• 500 grams sugar
• 1/4 cup sweet white wine
• 10 grams gelatin

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Fig jelly jam recipe instruction:

Wash figs, cut them in small pieces and place them in a saucepan. Squeeze the juice from a lemon and add it into saucepan together with walnuts.

Mix gelatin with 2 tablespoons of sugar in wine, and pour it in the saucepan with figs.

Cook it in low temperature to boil, stirring it all the time.

Pour rest of the sugar in boiling jelly and keep stirring it. When jelly begin to boil again, cook it for 3 minutes more (keep stirring it).

Pour hot fig jelly in sterilized warm jelly jars and seal them. Cover the jars with a blanket over night, so they cool gradually.

Store your homemade jelly in a cold place.

Homemade Preserves – Almond Apple Jelly Recipe

Almond apple jelly recipe instruction:

• 1 kilogram apples
• 1 lemon
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 tablespoons white rum
• 200 grams almonds
• 1 pouch liquid fruit pectin
• 500 grams sugar

Homemade preserves instruction:

Pour boiling water over almonds and let it stand like that for 5 minutes, so you can peel their skin.

Bake peeled almonds (without fat) in baking dish for a while, till you feel nice smell of baked almonds. Chop up almonds into small pieces.

Wash apples, peel them and cut them into eight parts. Clean apples from seeds, process them in the food processor and pour apple juice in the saucepan.

Pour lemon juice, rum, almonds and cinnamon into saucepan also and cook it in low heat to boil (stir it all the time).

Pour the sugar in the boiling apples and keep stirring it. When the fruit jelly begin to boil again, cook it for 3 minutes more and remove the cinnamon sticks from it.

Eliminate the foam from surface of a jelly with a spoon, stir the pectin in the apple mixture and remove it from heat.

Pour hot apple jelly in sterilized warm jelly jars and seal them.

Gourmet Jelly – Kiwi Jelly Recipe

Kiwi jelly recipe ingredients:

• 1, 5 kilogram kiwi
• 500 grams sugar
• 1 pouch liquid fruit pectin

Homemade jelly recipe instruction:

Peel the kiwi, wash them, chop the kiwi into small pieces and place them in saucepan.

Pour the sugar over kiwi in the saucepan and cook the jelly in low heat for about 1 hour.

Stir the pectin in the kiwi 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 gourmet jelly in the cool place.

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.

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.