Crab Apple Jelly

Origin: Mobile, Alabama

Source: Abby Fisher, 1881

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Put the apples to boil with one quart of water to one quart of apples.
  2. Let them boil until soft.
  3. Mash the apples.
  4. Put the mashed apples and the water they were boiled in into a linen rag.
  5. Let all the juice drip into a vessel.
  6. Measure the juice and take one quart of the dripped juice to one quart of granulated sugar.
  7. Put the juice and sugar on to boil for jelly.
  8. Boil for thirty minutes.
  9. Dip some into a saucer and set in the air to cool.
  10. If it is congealed when cool, it is done.
  11. Dip the glasses into boiling hot water and let them drain.
  12. Put the jelly into the glasses hot.
  13. Set the glasses to cool.
  14. Paper the same way you do currant jelly and put away in a dark place.

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