Homemade Canned Grape Jelly | Canning Recipes
Do you love homemade grape jelly on your toast? Maybe you use it in your savory recipes too like meatballs? Check out how you can make canned grape jelly from juice.
If you have extra grapes, you can make concentrated grape juice too.
Making Concord Grape Jelly
You really just need a few ingredients to make concord grape jelly. To start, you need grape juice from concord grapes. This requires you to take concord grapes (off the vine), washed in cool water to clean and squish them. Process them in food mill, electric or by hand with a potato masher to squish. My stand mixer has an attachment and it was pretty quick to make juice,
Once you have run the grapes through the mill, you will want to strain them through cheese cloth or bag. We used fruit press bag as that is what we had and we wanted some pulp in our juice. If you don’t want pulp, use a cheese cloth.
You can also use a steam canner to make your grape juice as well or find 100% grape juice in the store and use this.
How Do You Make Homemade Grape Jelly?
See the recipe below. It’s grape juice, sugar and pectin.
Can You Use Grape Juice to Make Jelly?
Yes you can. Be sure to use unsweetened juice to make this grape jelly recipe or it will be overly sweet.
What Is The Difference Between Jam And Jelly?
Short answer is jelly is made from the juice of fruit. Jam can contain seeds and pulp as well. The fruit us sometimes chopped or crushed in jams.
What Size Canning Jars Do You Use?
How much do you love grape jelly? We use half pints so that we can enjoy a variety of jellies. If you really love grape, use pint mason jars.
What Kind of Grapes Do You Use For Grape Jelly?
Concord grapes. They have a sweetness to them unlike the green, red or black grapes you find in the store. Using another kind for this recipe, will give you an entire different kind of jelly.
Do You Water Bath the Jelly?
Water bath only happens at the end after processing the jelly. You water bath the jars to ensure they are sealed. It is not used to process and boil the juice into jelly.
They should set and seal. The half pint jars will make great gifts for the holidays and housewarming gifts.
Homemade Canned Grape Jelly
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 cups grape juice
- 6 3/4 cups sugar
- 6 Tablespoons pectin or 3 ounce packet of liquid pectin
- 1/2 teaspoon butter (this is optional)
Instructions
- Fill water bath canner with water and turn on to heat water.
- In a large pan, add the grape juice, sugar and stir. Stir over high heat until the sugar disolves.
- Bring the mix to a boil and add the pectin and butter. The butter is optional, but keeps jelly from foaming.
- Stir constantly and bring the juice to a rolling boil for 1 minute. A rolling boil is a boil that canning be stirred down.
- Ladle the jelly into the jars using the canning funnel (keep the jars clean)
- Fill to 1/4" headspace
- Wipe the jars rim with a clean wet towel
- Place the seals and bands on the jar.
- Process the jars in a water bath canner for 10 minutes. Let the jars sit for 5 minutes before removing and placing a towel over them on the counter while they cool.
- Label and date the jars. Remove the bands for storage and check that the seals do not lift up.
- If the jars don't set, you can reprocess in the waterbath again for 10 minutes or add 2 Tablespoons of pectin and reprocess to a boil and waterbath again. You can only reprocess within the first 24 hours.
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