Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, corn cob jelly. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This delicious Corn Cob Jelly is light, sweet and incredibly delicate and delicious. It tastes a whole lot like honey on anything you spread it on. Saving Summer is my the theme for today and it's something.
Corn cob jelly is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Corn cob jelly is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook corn cob jelly using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Corn cob jelly:
- Make ready 3 1/2 cups corn cob juice (see below for directions)
- Take 3 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- Prepare 2 tsp lemon juice
- Prepare 1 package pectin (surejell)
- Make ready 5 mason jars.. 1/2 pint size
- Take waterbath canner
- Get 5 lids and rims for the jars
Corn cob jelly is a perfect example of the "waste not, want not" spirit of our ancestors who knew how to use everything, and I mean everything. I have been making this from an old recipe for years. It is an approved canning procedure, altho some recipes differ in the amount of corn juice called for. Corn Cob Jelly is a food that has been around for a long, long time.
Instructions to make Corn cob jelly:
- Start by saving 12 corn cobs.. I cut the raw corn from my sweet corn and use it for other recipes and save the cobs from that.
- Place your 12 cobs into a large saucepot and cover with water.. water should cover the cobs completely… hard boil then for at least 30 minutes.
- Remove the cobs and drain the liquid over a strainer and into a bowl.. this liguid is your juice.. you need 3 and 1/2 cups for one batch.
- Pour the juice back into the cleaned pot and heat.. add 2 tsp lemon juice and I package of pectin.. bring back to a rolling boil and add your sugar stirring constant for 1 minute..
- Ladle the jelly into hot jars leave 1/2 inch head space from the top of the jar then top with hot lids and the rings.. screw the ring down tight…..
- Place your jars into a waterbath canner with hot water.. the water should cover the jars at least an inch. Cover and boil for 10 minutes…
- Put your jars on a counter or table with a towel underneath and leave for at least 24 hours to set.. you will hear small pop from each jar as they cool and seal..
- Stores for up to a year… refrigerate after opening….
- Enjoy over toast etc…
Our ancestors knew how to use and reuse so many items that we just throw away. One of these items was the corn cob. Corn cob jelly is a perfect example of the "waste not, want not" spirit of our ancestors who knew how to use everything, and I mean everything. Most of us are accustomed to tossing corn cobs in the trash. Procedure Cook corn, cut kernels from cobs and store for another use.
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