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Crab-Apple Hot Pepper Jelly

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Category: Fruit

 Ingredients List

  • 2 lb Crab apples (1 kg)
  • 1 1/2 c Water
  • Red wine vinegar
  • 3 3/4 c Granulated sugar
  • 1 c Sweet green peppers
  • 1/3 c Hot peppers

 Directions

Crab apple pectin gives a good set to this hot pepper jelly. Mix and match
hot peppers for colour and degree of heat. Banana peppers range from
piquant to medium-hot. Cherry peppers and long, skinny green chili peppers
are fiery. (Original recipe indicated 1 cup of hot peppers - recommend 1/3
cup if using fiery variety).

When chopping hot peppers, wear gloves and don't touch your face or eyes.

In Dutch oven, combine apples with water. Cover and bring slowly to simmer;
cook until apples are very soft. Pour into colander lined with square of
dampened muslin and placed over deep bowl. Weight down with saucer and
heavy can. Let stand until dripping stops. Discard pulp.

Pour collected juice into liquid measure; add enough vinegar to make 3
cups. Combine in saucepan with sugar. Bring to boil, stirring. Add peppers;
boil briskly for 8-10 minutes or until set (*). Stir for 7 minutes to
prevent floating peppers.

Pour jelly into hot, sterilized 8-oz sterilized preserving jars. Seal with
two-piece canning lids. Let cool and refrigerate. For long-term
unrefrigerated storage, process in boiling-water bath for 5 minutes
immediately after sealing jars.

Makes six 8-oz jars.

(*) to test for set: remove pan from heat, dip cold metal spoon into liquid
and hold well above steam. Turn spoon sideways and let liquid run off; when
it forms two drops that run together and drip from edge of spoon, jelling
point is reached.


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