Blackberry jelly for the pickin'

They're ripe, and they're free! Another experiment in 100-foot cuisine! They grow wild, we're stewards of the land (that is, we pay the property taxes on it), and they'll just die if I don't pick them, right? Let's make jelly!

Step 1: Ingredients

1-2 quarts of ripe blackberries
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoon size packets Stevia in the Raw
3 t. powdered pectin

Comments

[Stever0812]

Compost it!

[Dr. P]

Can you imagine the vegetable garden when those seeds decided to sprout? I'd have to leave the country.

[Mr. E Meat]

Nice instructable! I still have tons of blackberries from last year in the freezer. I think I might just make a batch of blackberry jelly! I'm blessed with neighbors that do not care for their yards and the blackberries grow over their fences into my yard. I get more than I can pick every year. Mmmm... Blackberry wine... I should do an Instructable...

[Dr. P]

Oh, please do the blackberry wine thing! I have about all the jelly I can eat.

[MaryT8M]

did you check the date on the pectin? It needs to be fresh....Ask me how I know! ;-)

I'm SO jealous blackberries are SO $$$ here.

this (and the rest of your instructables look wonderful. Thanks for sharing!

[Dr. P]

I did check--yeast has taught me that lesson. I just jostled the jars, and they're set! Yea! Biscuits for breakfast. Thanks for the kind words.

[Dr. P]

Sorry, I was wrapped up in thoughts of biscuits. Mary T8M, how do you know the pectin has to be fresh?

[Dr. P]

I've just spread it out and put it in the dehydrator. We'll see if it becomes jerky. I can do the cream cheese tomorrow or the next day, because there are still a lot of berries out there! I love food from the gods!

[jessyratfink]

YUM! I love blackberries. You could probably add the pulp to a cobbler. Or mix it with whipped cream or cream cheese. :)

[Dr. P]

Cream cheese! Something like those congealed salads... yeah!

[jessyratfink]

Oh, and if you add a little marshmallow fluff to the cream cheese, it's even better!