The Making of Plum Jelly

Hello all!

Good news! We found wild plum trees on our property. After much deep thought and contemplation, we decided to make plum jelly from it!

The most difficult and/or time consuming part of the whole process was picking the plums. For this, we needed backup...and we were in luck! Henry followed us around the whole time, monitoring and offering moral support.

An offering of gratitude. 

Once we had a few pounds of plums picked, we removed the pits from each one. There may or may not have been some taste testing done along the way as well...You can never be too careful.

Once we had a good amount, I lightly chopped them in my new blender! That thing is amazing...like, it can make pesto, and guacamole, and jelly! Can you do that?!

In order to make our jelly, we followed the recipe on the back of the pectin box. (Some jellies use pectin and some don't, because it is found naturally in the fruit. We decided to use it this time!)

The process is super easy! You just boil the plums with some water to bring out the juice, then strain it (we used a fine strainer, but cheesecloth works too). Then you cook it some more with the pectin and sugar, throw it in a can and viola! Jelly!

The finished project!

Like I said, super easy! Though the plums are very sweet, this jelly is nice and tart, similar to a rhubarb flavor. If you want it sweeter, just peel all or most of the skins off the plums.

Some fresh jelly, and homemade bread...mmmm...fall is here!