Cookin’

Twenty four jars of Concord Grape Jelly!

Monday, that’s what I spent my day doing. After cleaning the grapes on Saturday and pressing them on Sunday, I found myself on Monday actually making the jelly! I started at 9:30 and didn’t stop until 3 PM! All that time spent on my feet, stirring the jelly.

I learned the hard way, years ago, what happened when you didn’t follow the recipe and stir constantly. The mixture would quickly bubble up, overflow the pot and then set like candy on the top of my cook stove! What a mess!

So, today I made sure I stirred the juice, while it cooked into the tastiest batch of jelly I have made in many a year!

I’d been worried that I would not have too many jars, but 24 is great. I like to make up baskets of jelly and bread, for gifts at Christmas and birthdays! Needless to say, my family is thrilled, as the Grape Jelly is their favorite!

Later in the afternoon I made a nice fresh spaghetti sauce with a lot of vegetables for our supper. I still need to do the dishes and then, my day is done! Thank goodness!