Spiced Apple Jelly

My James Downy crab has produced a bumper crop this year as they started dropping of yesterday I picked them got a bucket full,
Today have a dozen jars of spiced jelly. super on pork
4 pints of juice obtained by boiling crabs up till they go mushy drip in a jelly bag resist the temptation to squeeze it makes it cloudy if you do,add 2 tea spoons cloves and a few cinnamon sticks boil it up for a bit, taste it if it is to your liking strain the spices out then proceed to add 4lbs sugar and boil up fast watching closely as it will boil over, when it sets on the back of a spoon just pot it up in hot jars and waxed circles I put the lids on when its really cold the next day is fine. It really is super as a glaze on grilled chops or with cold meat.

 

Sounds really yummy, rositu. So have added it to my recipe book along with Marley's Apple Mint Jelly. Thanks!

 

Rosietu
Thanks for the memories.
Thats just how mum used to make it.
I remember there was an upside down chair involved.
Used to tie the muslim across the four legs off the chair and filter the juice into a big bowl below.
Apple jelly... umm.. one of my most favorite and sadly missed for years.
robert

 

Rosehip jelly

Anybody still making that these days?
robert

 

Re rosehip jelly think its a case of find your rosehips they used to grow prolific on the hedgerows not any more...Tell you another good one for meat is Rowan, plenty of those about, just follow the old way of a lb of sugar to a pint of juice. sets well I have seen it in posh shops very expensive. Re jelly bag I hang mine from the handles of the top cupboard any fine cloth will do even a worn out tea towel.