FAMOUS HIGHBUSH CRANBERRY JELLY
Make and share this Famous Highbush Cranberry Jelly recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Joanie Grow
Categories Jellies
Time 40m
Yield 8 cups
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- 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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