- 1 gallon [3 3/4 L] chokeberries [good measure]
- Water
- 5 cups [1 kg] sugar
- Hot sterilized jars and lids
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- Stem fully ripe chokecherries; clean, rinse then transfer chokeberries into a kettle.
- Add enough water so you can see it between the berries.
- Cook until well done.
- Squeeze out the juice.
- If not quite enough for 5 cups [1.125 L], add water.
- Make jelly in small batches as follows : 5 cups [1.125 L] juice.
- Boil for 20 minutes.
- Measure sugar in a pan and heat in oven.
- Add warm sugar to juice and boil until it falls in sheets instead of drips off a spoon.
- Pour into hot sterilized jars, and seal.
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