Highbush Cranberry Jelly - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    4 cups highbush cranberries
    6 cups water
    additional water (as needed)
    7 cups sugar
    1/2 teaspoon margarine or 1/2 teaspoon butter
    1 packet liquid pectin (Certo)
Preparation
    Bring the berries and water to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
    Crush the berries or put through a food mill.
    Strain the juice in a cheesecloth-lined sieve.
    Add any additional water if need to bring the juice up to 5 cups.
    Bring the juice and sugar up to a boil.
    Add the margarine, then the liquid pectin.
    Bring back to a boil, stirring constantly boil hard for 1 minute.
    Remove from heat.
    Skim foam from surface and pour into sterile pint jars and seal.
    Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.
    NOTE: Highbush cranberries are a fruit of the honeysuckle, and completely different fruit than the lowbush or commercial cranberry.
    Highbush cranberries grow on a shrub with pointed leaves whereas cranberries grow on a vine with oval leaves.
    Highbush cranberries have a single seed, which needs to be removed.
    If you have ever smelled something reminiscent of stinky socks on a stroll through the bush, you are likely very close to a good patch of highbush cranberries.
    The seeded pulp of the highbush cranberry can be used interchangeably with the pulp of the regular cranberry in any recipe.

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