Crab Apple Jelly
Origin: Mobile, Alabama
Source: Abby Fisher, 1881
Ingredients
- 1 quart crab apples
- 1 quart water
- 1 quart granulated sugar
Instructions
- Put the apples to boil with one quart of water to one quart of apples.
- Let them boil until soft.
- Mash the apples.
- Put the mashed apples and the water they were boiled in into a linen rag.
- Let all the juice drip into a vessel.
- Measure the juice and take one quart of the dripped juice to one quart of granulated sugar.
- Put the juice and sugar on to boil for jelly.
- Boil for thirty minutes.
- Dip some into a saucer and set in the air to cool.
- If it is congealed when cool, it is done.
- Dip the glasses into boiling hot water and let them drain.
- Put the jelly into the glasses hot.
- Set the glasses to cool.
- Paper the same way you do currant jelly and put away in a dark place.