Damson Jelly
Damson Jelly

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, damson jelly. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Damson Jelly is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Damson Jelly is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook damson jelly using 4 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Damson Jelly:
  1. Get 1 kg Damsons
  2. Make ready 250 ml water
  3. Prepare 1 lemon
  4. Get Preserving sugar without added pectin
Steps to make Damson Jelly:
  1. Wash fruit and remove any stalks and leaves
  2. Put damsons, squeezed lemon juice and water in large saucepan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 40 minutes.
  3. This year I bought a jelly bag (what a treat!) but it is fine to use a clean muslin cloth. Pour the cooked fruit into the jelly bag and suspend over a clean bowl.1.
  4. My jelly bag is threaded onto 2 wooden spoons balanced on an upsidedown stool. I am sure there are better ways but this works.
  5. I left it overnight to get every last drop of juice.
  6. Measure the volume of juice and using jam sugar without pectin, weigh 500gm to a pint of juice
  7. Put juice and sugar into a large pan over heat and stir to dissolve sugar. Boil rapidly to setting point but take care…. the volume increases and it would be very messy if it boiled over.
  8. The jelly is ready when a splodge of the fruit and sugar skins over when put on a saucer in the fridge. This photo is not much help I'm afraid.
  9. Pour the lovely liquid jelly into clean jars and label them. And taste the rich sweet jelly.

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