Crab Apples

[Sniper-T]

A friends tree was ripe for the picking...

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making Jelly...

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[bacpacker]

Sniper, you have got a nice stash of wild stuff around to harvest from. You absolutely can't beat that.

[Sniper-T]

yep. my chokecherries are just starting to come ripe now too! Although I'm sad that I missed the pincherries, but I made up for them with the blueberries.

I also found a primo location for rose hips too!

[Sniper-T]

12 cups of juice...

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an insane amount of sugar:

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and some lemon

also added 2 pkg of Certo pectin...

rolling boil for 45 minutes

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stirring and skimming

and... done:

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Oh... and added in some diced Portuguese hot peppers to a few jars.

[bacpacker]

That looks good. I'm betting the hot jars will be awesome.

[jamesneuen]

Rose hip wine is fantastic!!!