What is it about kids and grape jelly? I have four kids and at some point each one of them would only eat grape jelly. (They do grow out of it.) This means I have been buying little, tiny, jars of organic jelly for something like $4 a pop for close to two decades! Last summer I wised up. In my mind I thought the only way to make grape jelly was to scour the earth for pounds and pounds of expensive concord grapes and go through the work of juicing them. Wrong. Someone else has done all the work for me.
A $4 jug of juice, a bit of sugar, and a pectin pouch = 4 1/2 pints of purple goodness. This will be the third time I have used this recipe, and Youngest Son will tell you it is a winner.
GRAPE JELLY
4 cups concord grape juice
7 cups sugar
1 pectin pouch
Pour the juice and sugar in to a large non-reactive pan and bring to a rolling boil. A rolling boil is one that can not be stirred down.
Add entire contents of pectin pouch and continue to boil for one minute.
Fill jars with hot jelly and process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes. Let cool completely and check to be certain the jelly has set and the lids have sealed.
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Hey thanks for this! I was drinking Ribena the other day and said it reminded me of grape jelly and my son had never heard of grape jelly!! We only ever have homemade jam, and like you I had never bothered to find all those concord grapes. I'll have to give this a try on the week-end.
Posted by: kate | January 31, 2011 at 12:47 PM
Charles Schulz, of the Charlie Brown fame, would only eat grape jellyl on his morning toast. ONLY grape jelly. Every day of his life. It must help the creative characteristics.
Posted by: Deborah Torgerson | January 31, 2011 at 11:04 PM
My sister-in-law, The Soup Queen, last summer gave me some grape juice she had canned and I made jelly with some of it. My family was just not wild about my grape jelly -go figure. Your recipe here looks super easy and your jelly is beautiful -maybe they'll like this recipe better.
Posted by: Tamra | February 01, 2011 at 08:48 AM
It is delicious.This is a really simple recipe for a classic, comforting dish.
Posted by: gibson | February 01, 2011 at 09:30 PM
Yum, it's not just kids who love grape jelly! Think I might try this one too.
Posted by: Patty | February 03, 2011 at 12:09 AM
I wonder if this would work with other kinds of juice as well?
Posted by: Allen | October 17, 2011 at 10:11 AM