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Grape Jelly

Filed under: family — mullerj at 9:12 pm on Sunday, November 5, 2006

Last weekend Eric and I picked our bumper crop of concord grapes, cleaned and ‘juiced’ them. This weekend we made grape jelly - lots of it. 47 jelly jars and 1 quart jar worth of grape jelly! We did recipes with sure-jell and liquid pectins; we did recipes with sugar and Spenda. It was all tasty.

It all starts with the juice.
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Our crew chief monitors the next batch.
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Too many cooks?????
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I can’t believe we made so much grape jelly.
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Comment by Karen Muller

November 7, 2006 @ 11:55 am

The Crew Chief is lookin’ good … and I’ll bet Eric had a blast!

Karen

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July 8, 2008 @ 7:42 am

[...] A couple years ago we had a bumper crop of concord grapes.  The grapes need to be moved because the trees around them have grown so much they are shading the grapes, but that is a project for this fall.  For now they are doing what they are supposed to - making grapes.  The concord grapes come out late (to avoid frost) and mature late (I picked our bumper crop the last weekend in October). [...]

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