{"id":11754,"date":"2026-08-20T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11754"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:41:28","slug":"finally-i-got-the-chokecherry-jelly-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/08\/20\/finally-i-got-the-chokecherry-jelly-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, I got the chokecherry jelly done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Will went down in the basement and easily found the Mehu Liisa steam juicer I couldn’t find, yesterday, I not only seeded out some more tomatoes but got busy and made my first attempt at Bronco cherry jelly. I added the jalape\u00f1os to the steam juicer with the chokecherries. I didn’t seed them, but cut them in half, lengthwise. I only used three of them as they were hot and I didn’t want my jelly to be too spicy.<\/p>\n

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I put three jalape\u00f1os, cut lengthwise, on top of the chokecherries in the Mehu Liisa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I ended up with enough juice to make two batches of jelly. Boy, do I hate it that SureJel did away with putting a recipe flyer in each box! Gee, I had to get my book, Growing and Canning Your Own Food<\/a>, out for the recipe.<\/p>\n

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The Mehu Liisa steam juicer gives me a whole lot more juice than the old jelly bag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, the jelly came out just fine, although next time, I’ll add double the jalape\u00f1os to the same ice cream pail nearly full of chokecherries. It wasn’t spicy at all, but had a nice, rich flavor. All the jars sealed nicely although the ring came off one jar! This is the second time this has happened and they were newer rings. In more than 60 years of canning (and Mom and Grandma before me), this has never happened before. Cheap rings, with incorrect spacing on the ridges. Yes, I did tighten the rings snuggly, as I always do! Aghhhhh!<\/p>\n

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Ta da! Mild Bronco cherry jelly \u2014 8 pints.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I’d saved all the tomato pieces, after I’d seeded them, I tossed them in the blender with onion and garlic pieces and gave it a good whizz. Then I packed the puree in pints and waterbathed that. There were only three pints and a half pint. But I hate throwing away anything and we’ll sure find use for the tomato puree this winter.<\/p>\n

Today, it’s rained a bit so I think I’ll seed out the Sweet Granite muskmelons Will picked in the Wolf Garden yesterday. This year, they’re not only early but also nice and big. We have several watermelons that are much larger than a basketball too. That’s so encouraging. Just like the ears setting on our 3rd planting of corn! Despite a late start and the dratted weeds, it looks very promising. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Will went down in the basement and easily found the Mehu Liisa steam juicer I couldn’t find, yesterday, I not only seeded out some more tomatoes but got busy and made my first attempt at Bronco cherry jelly. I added the jalape\u00f1os to the steam juicer with the chokecherries. I didn’t seed them, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food-preservation","category-seeds","category-self-sufficiency","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11759,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions\/11759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}